Colin Gleadell is enjoying the irony of Matthew Collings, an art market critic, cashing in:

Collings has been critical about the current art world “ruled by money”. “It’s not a good time to be an artist,” he says. With values dictated by money, “art is generally bad at the moment”.

How pleasant to report, therefore, that Collings, who paints in partnership with his wife, Emma Biggs, has just had a sell-out exhibition.

The paintings, geometrical abstractions that resonate with the qualities of ancient Byzantine mosaics, were on show at the Vigo gallery in Old Bond Street, and modestly priced between £8,000 and £18,000 each.

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