These objects seem sacred because they have been filtered through art: they have been subject to the transforming and never entirely explicable alchemy of painting.Campin painted his two versions of The Virgin and Child in an Interior at a time when the expressive range of fluid oil paint was just being discovered by European artists. 'I had no idea that our company was one of several guaranteeing their overdraft,' Mr Birchwood said.'That, not surprisingly, immediately put us into an insolvent situation, although we had pounds 2.5m of business on the books and a factory working flat out. Men die doing it, as three did at Bilsthorpe in Nottinghamshire last week, and all through this century they have 'fought' - sometimes metaphorically, sometimes literally - first to increase or maintain the wages they have earned from it, and latterly to preserve it as a way of working and living. He was divorced in 1989, but he and his wife, Julia, had separated in 1980 They have two grown-up sons.

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