‘It’s just crazy’: the retired Cornish builder making thousands from his whale paintings

‘It’s just crazy’: the retired Cornish builder making thousands from his whale paintings

Steve Camp had no formal training but his compositions, created in left-over emulsion, are making waves in the art world

A year ago, art gallery owner Tabby Booth was scrolling through eBay when a painting of a whale caught her eye.

“I wasn’t even browsing for work,” said Booth, who set up the Sailors Jail gallery in Falmouth, Cornwall, with her husband, James Heslip, in 2023. “It was just for my own interest. But there was something about these whale pictures that felt really special, and the artist was from Newquay.

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