It's not the first time Hirst has painted an entire series himself, but it's perhaps the first time he's fully succeeded in front of the easel—when his last painting show opened, in 2012, the Guardian critic Jonathan Jones savaged his show at White Cube in London, saying, “Hirst is not a painter at all in any ...

Does Damien Hirst do his own painting?

While there are over 1,400 of these works in existence, it is claimed that Hirst only painted around 25 of them himself, with the remaining being completed by his team of assistants. Regularly selling for tens of thousands, they are no different from the rest of his works, not actually completed by the artist.

How does Damien Hirst do his spin paintings?

Damien Hirst is a famous British artist. This is one of his Spin paintings. To make them he stands on a ladder and pours paint onto a large circular canvas. As he pours the paint, the canvas is rotated by a machine – like a disc on a record player!