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 of Art. At that time he became a close friend of Damien Hirst. Harvey did not take part in the "Freeze" show as he had graduated from Goldsmiths earlier, but Hirst included him when he curated "Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away" (1994). Harvey's work attracted the attention of Charles Saatchi. He currently lives and works in London. Beyond the studio, Marcus Harvey joined with fellow painter Peter Ashton Jones to form Turps Banana Magazine in 2005. Turps focuses on new writing about both art historical and contemporary painting, written entirely by contemporary practicing painters. The magazine is published twice