Vertical painting

A special note from: International Wildlife Artist - Linda Wain My chosen medium is ProColour Liquid Acrylics which has been developed for me by ChromaColour International Limited in Canada. It is made at the ChromaColour manufacturing facility in Canada and NOT by a third party paint maker in the UK. The chemist who developed Artist Colours has made my product to a secret formula using the very latest of resins and pigments to produce a paint product of the highest quality...enhanced well beyond the original Artist Colour line. ProColour is exclusively retailed by me throughout the UK and Europe. I regret the continued insults being directed at me by the UK Chromacolour. Obviously I have taken business away from them, but I want you to have the best acrylic available and I believe that is what I now offer. Don't forget to buy your copy of Leisure Painter magazine (Nov 2010) in which I have completed an excellent demonstration for you to follow. www.lindawain.com and www.procolour.net

Ah, that old one. Shall we say, without plunging right in up to the neck, that I'm familiar with the issues. I am going to say nothing against Linda Wain and Procolour: but this is a business dispute between Chromacolour International, based in Canada and the supplier of what is now called Procolour to Linda Wain - who is its sole distributor in the UK - and Chromacolour UK. I use paint from Chromacolour UK; their side of the story is told on their website, and they have many artists associated with them, including Chris Christoforou, who has been working extensively on the colour range. So you have the choice - I have no reason to suppose that Linda's paint will not suit many, although it's only available in pots, and I like acrylic in tubes because of its greater density. Speaking for myself, I have had a very good relationship with Chromacolour UK; it is a British company and employer; it makes a good product; it continues to improve it. So I've chosen my supplier of choice - having used Chromacolour ever since it was first produced (in Canada) and I hope these internecine disputes between what are now two quite separate companies don't damage confidence in the product. There has been much bad blood - however: whenever I recommend Chromacolour, I mean the paint available from Chromacolour UK. Obviously, business issues and difficult histories to one side, the only way to find out what you prefer is to try both. For those really interested in the history, the Chief Executive of Chromacolour UK is Julian Beaven, whom I've found to be willing to go into it all at length. And just for the record, no, I don't have shares in Chromacolour UK....

I would add by the way that the "insults" have been flowing generally in one direction, and I have seen none directed at Linda.