That was the question posed in the recent BBC mini series, which offered the viewer some intimate, observational portraits of Britain's leading artists.
The series takes a look at Norman Ackroyd's artistic journey to becoming one of the country's most celebrated landscape artists, it delves into the macabre works of 'Britain's hottest bird stuffer', Polly Morgan, and sees Jack Vettriano talk with brutal honestly about his critics and how he deals with fame.
This all comes as part of BBC Four's newly reinforced commitment to arts and culture, where they plan to introduce a number of new peak-time, topical arts programmes. Their aim being to bring contemporary working artists to the forefront, something we at Gallereo agree with wholeheartedly!