After a lifetime’s work conjuring up the most risqué paintings, featuring men with women in various states of undress, Scotland’s most popular and best-selling artist, Jack Vettriano, has announced a dramatic change of direction: he intends to paint yachts.
This creative sea change comes amid other signs that, at 57, the notoriously rakish painter is mellowing. He has acquired a dog and harbors hopes of settling down, possibly even having a child.
In an interview with The Times, Vettriano said that after almost endlessly creating exhibitions for the Portland Gallery, which represented …