The Art Upstart

The Art Upstart is no ordinary art book. It tells the 

inspirational story of someone who was a brilliant 

artist as a child but who stopped dead in his tracks 

when his father died tragically young - when James was 

just 13 years old.


Then one morning, 40 years later, with no warning - 

James woke up with all consuming need to paint again. 

The drive to do it was like the sexual drive of youth. 

He had stored up hundreds of abstract images. He also 

had a story to tell - a big story; 225 paintings. He was 

willing to risk a great deal to tell it, even though he 

had no formal artistic training. In doing so unheralded, 

he embarked on a remarkable emotional and spiritual 

journey through his work. He was to become The Art 

Upstart.