The painter of Bedlington terriers, landscapes and crucifixions was destined to be a lawyer, before a painting in the Tate changed his life. Martin Gayford visits Craigie Aitchison in his south London home and finds an artist who is a law to himself. Photographs by Derry Moore.
‘I don’t know north London at all,’ Craigie Aitchison explains, ‘I’ve only ever been there twice. I don’t feel right up there.’ In fact, Hampstead, Islington and Kentish...
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