Martin Gayford has been art critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph. He is currently Chief European art critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are: The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles, The Penguin Book of Art Writing, of which he was co-editor, and contributions to many catalogues. In 2009 he co-curated the exhibition Constable Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery and Compton Verney. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.