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
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Royal Society of Portrait Painters The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) is an art society based at Carlton House Terrace, SW1, London. The Society is a registered charity run by its members to promote, the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of portraiture through its annual exhibition, education and debate. The Society is a member of the Federation of British Artists and is a registered charity. The Royal Society of Portrait Painters was founded in 1891 by 24 artists who were dissatisfied with the selection policies of the Royal Academy for its annual exhibition in London. They formed themselves, as the