Meet prize-winning painter Frances Bell: ‘I wanted to be a traditional artist – that was my passion’

The artist on how she went from the stereotype of ‘starving in a garret’ to one of the most in-demand portraitists in Britain. 

When she was 21, painter Frances Bell was living “in the boot of [her] car” scraping by on £10,000 a year. “All the stereotypes about starving in a garret tend to be true,” she says of an artist’s early career[…]