Alan Turnbull is a practising artist who lectured in painting and printmaking at Newcastle University and numerous art schools. He grew up in a mining village in north-east England where books in the home were few and far between. Aged fifteen, he came across a book about Van Gogh by accident in the school art room and borrowed it (without permission). He's been reading about Van Gogh and looking at his pictures ever since.
'An intriguing read' - Martin Bailey, The Art Newspaper 'Enjoyable and easy to dip in to' - Mature Times