Marcus Harvey a year with full colour reproductions and a commitment to no advertising. The cover design is in yellow, with the word "TURPS" and the iconic banana of Andy Warhol. In 2012, Turps Art School was founded to allow emerging and mid career painters to take a year painting intensive with other practicing painters, it has been heralded as an alternative model for arts education by Jonathan Jones for "The Guardian" in 2014 as "The renegade art school proving that painting is not dead." Harvey is known for his tabloid-provoking portrayal of Moors murderer Myra Hindley, created from handprints taken from
Marcus Harvey a plaster cast of a child’s hand, and shown in the "Sensation" exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in 1997. The painting had to be temporarily removed from display for repair after it was attacked in two separate incidents on the opening day, in which ink and eggs were thrown at it. "The Times" newspaper's art critic, Richard Cork, wrote that: Harvey's current work combines painting, photography, and sculpture while exploring British iconography in pop culture, the landscape, and cultural history. These recent works include thick gestural figurative paintings made on top of and obscuring photographic prints of landscapes