{"id":944,"date":"2009-01-29T04:49:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T09:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/01\/29\/strangely-comforting-my-wife-or-my-art-art-market-monitor\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T04:49:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T09:49:05","slug":"strangely-comforting-my-wife-or-my-art-art-market-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/29\/strangely-comforting-my-wife-or-my-art-art-market-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangely Comforting&#8211;My Wife or My Art &#124; Art Market Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My Wife or My Art<br \/>\nJanuary 29th, 2009<br \/>\nJack VettrianoJack Vettriano is the UK\u2019s most popular artist, something of a Scottish Thomas Kinkade. But he got a late start on his career, as the Independent quotes him:<br \/>\nIt wasn\u2019t until my wife and I separated, when I was 39, that I started painting full time. <strong>Before that, we were trapped in a rather difficult position, like a lot of people, struggling to pay the mortgage and also paying school fees for my wife\u2019s child. We could just afford to go out once a month if we were lucky. <\/strong>Once I was on my own, I began painting as a full-time career and within a year I was making three or four times what I had ever dreamed imaginable. Soon I had several galleries keen to represent me, and the press were also starting to show interest.<br \/>\nAt Home with Jack Vettriano (The Independent)<br \/>\nPosted in Uncategorized<br \/>\nShareThis<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artmarketmonitor.com\/2009\/01\/29\/my-wife-or-my-art\/\">My Wife or My Art | Art Market Monitor<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Wife or My Art January 29th, 2009 Jack VettrianoJack Vettriano is the UK\u2019s most popular artist, something of a Scottish Thomas Kinkade. But he got a late start on his career, as the Independent quotes him: It wasn\u2019t until my wife and I separated, when I was 39, that I started painting full time. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/29\/strangely-comforting-my-wife-or-my-art-art-market-monitor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strangely Comforting&#8211;My Wife or My Art &#124; Art Market Monitor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}