Sentences with phrase «prolific dabbler»

In many ways he fits into a distinct artistic «type»: a solitary maverick with a love - hate relationship to the Academy; alternately self - deprecating and outrageously boastful; eccentric to the point of mental instability; a quasi-mystic; a self - proclaimed polymath and prolific dabbler in other fields alongside his painting; a shameless self - publicist, self - publisher, self - mythologiser and purveyor of home - spun theory and philosophy.