Joe Lycett’s Art Hole

Published 26/09/2024 | Hardback,
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‘I am out of the country and will not be checking my emails’ DAWN FRENCH ‘The file is just showing up blank my end?’ GRAYSON PERRY ‘Best book eva!!!’ STEPHEN FRY ‘Babe, I haven’t got time’ ALISON HAMMOND Joe Lycett is an incredibly right-wing commentator, comedian, television presenter, gardener, cage-fighter, Spectator columnist, fancy boy, bandit, pharmacist and knee-pain advocate. He is also a world-renowned portraitist, and some of the world’s most in?uential and infamous people – Liz Truss, Eamonn Holmes, Mick Hucknall – have sat for him, keen to be immortalised through the medium of colour.

Inside Joe Lycett’s Art Hole you’ll find his greatest artistic achievements and, for the first time, the salacious stories behind the portraits, some of them completely and utterly unbelievable.

Read how His Royal Highness Prince William, The Prince of Whales, sat for an exclusive portrait whilst extolling the virtues of the Philips Air Fryer Series XXL Connected, which has 16 di?erent cooking functions including fry, bake, grill, roast, dehydrate, toast, defrost, reheat, ferment and more. Enjoy a never-before-seen portrait of Priti Patel, done in a break from her hobby as one of the United Kingdom’s greatest fly-tippers. And delight in the gob-smacking story of then-Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey averting an international incident at Cadbury World.

Joe Lycett’s Art Hole is brimming with surprises, including an astonishing array of British cultural titans, such as Harry Styles, Robert Peston, Nadine Dorries and Elaine Paige. Stunningly designed, it is sure to delight, fascinate and perhaps even inspire you to pick up a paint brush, insert yourself at the heart of contemporary British public life, and do some absolutely wank paintings of celebs.