Master forger once foiled by The Art Newspaper reveals his secrets

A fake Gauguin spotted by The Art Newspaper was cobbled together in a shed in Bolton, Greater Manchester, by Shaun Greenhalgh, who has just published his memoirs (A Forgers Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger, Allen & Unwin). The notorious faker describes his effort as the worst piece of sculpture I have made as an adult. Using a mixture of clay, earth dug up in the nearby Jumbles Country Park and cigarette ash (in an attempt to get the right surface texture), he fired the sculpture of a