“For more than 25 years the New York based monthly magazine Art Forum has been the bible of the art world in America and Europe but strangely it has recently become the inspiration for one of the odder success stories in contemporary art. Five years ago the young British painter Simon Linke started making oil paintings that were exact replicas of the advertisement pages in Art Forum they were an immediate success Linke was taken on by a top London gallery and his paintings began to take their place on the walls of collectors on both sides of the Atlantic since then his work has been nothing if not consistent the size has varied but the subject matter hasn’t.”
— Tracy MacLoed, speaking on TV in 1990, in her introduction to Matthew Collings interviewing Simon Linke. The Late Show, BBC 2. (Transcribed from You Tube).
