I'm an art forger...I love tricking art experts with fake paintings

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Meet Peter Sinclair - an 'art forger' who creates his own versions of classic paintings - because he loves to prove the experts wrong!  Watch the full episode of Unconventional Brits online at https://www.shotstv.com/watch/vod/52636276

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00:00My name is Peter Jameson Sinclair and I've always had this thing that makes me want to draw. I've

00:07got to draw. I have to do it. It's not a matter of money. It's not a matter of,

00:11of, of, oh, yeah, I need to, I need to pay a bill. Let's do a painting and sell it. I've got to do

00:19it. The forging, I like sticking two fingers up at the establishment. There was a forger,

00:26I say was because he's dead now, a guy called Eric Heaven. He would do pen and ink washes in

00:31the styles of preparatory sketches because nobody used to keep sketches when they were an artist.

00:39He ended up bragging about it and wrote a book, how to do it, how to do this, how to do that.

00:48And one of his justifications was he could turn around to someone and say, well,

00:53not making anything of his own art. But these people go, oh, yeah, so see the delicacy of the

01:01brush strokes. And on one occasion, Antony Blunt was ranting and raving, oh, sublime.

01:10And Heaven just picked it up and went, I did that last night. And that motivates me a lot.

01:19It gives me energy. It does. I love it. I love being able to because the art world is very

01:27pompous. It's very pompous. Most of these people would not survive in any kind of job,

01:35not even as a chef. They then dictate as to how this world that they can't actually do works.

01:47And they set the rules and they set the commissions. That's wrong. That is it's

01:55criminal. So I like very much the idea of sticking two fingers up at these people because it's like,

02:02oh, yes, well, I had someone turn around and say about my Caravaggio as well. So it's very A-level.

02:08You do it. Go on, you do it. No, you can't, can you?

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