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MASTERCLASSweeks, but is now a painting supervisor on the project.She is in talks to make a painted animation feature ofher own, this time about Toulouse Lautrec.The film has given paid employment to artists whotrained in painting but struggled to find lucrative work;one employee took a break from his job as a mechanicto paint for Loving Vincent, another had been workingin a meat factory in the UK when the opportunity arose.It’s impossible to know, but one suspects this surreal,poetic set-up is something Van Gogh would have loved,if not been slightly baffled by.The film is due to be completed by September, with a``````release date anticipated for December 2016, thoughthe Loving Vincent team continue to seek distributionin cinemas across the globe.In a letter to his little sister Willemien, Vincent VanGogh wrote, “I would like to do portraits which wouldlook like apparitions to people a century later. So Idon’t try to do us by photographic resemblance but byour passionate expressions.”Some 126 years on, the ghosts of these portraitsare about to come to life.Follow the progress of Loving Vincent online athttp://www.facebook.com/lovingvincentmovieDr PaulGACHETABOVE One of Van Gogh’smost famous subjects,Dr Gachet will be portrayedby Game of Thrones actorJerome FlynnArtists & Illustrators 2318 Van Gogh.indd 23 10/06/2016 15:32