A Painter's Life

K. B. Dixons work has been described as original clever pithy lyrical insightful gonzo and laugh-out-loud funny. His new novel A Painters Life is a characteristically mischievous oddity. A mix of biographical scraps journal entries review excerpts and interviews it is an intimate and introspective tour of the art world-a portrait of the sometimes portraitist Christopher Freeze. Focusing in part on Freezes friends family and fellow artists-as well as his relationship with his frazzled dealer and his would-be monographer-it is an inventive seriocomic look at one peculiar mans ceaseless struggle to make something beautiful.