Supermodel and uber celebrity Kate Moss is the subject of four new paintings by Stella Vine currently in an exhibition at Hiscox Art Projects. The exhibition, “The Beautiful and The Damned” is a collaboration with artist Henry Hudson.

One painting, entitled “Must Be the Season of the Witch”, is taken from newspaper photograph and shows the model laying out lines of cocaine - a photograph that led to Moss being dropped from several high profile advertising campaigns, notably that of fashion retailer H & M.

Two other paintings are also portraits - one is of Moss smoking a cigarette with the paint dripping from her face is entitled “Holy Water Cannot Help You Now”. The other, “I Only Sleep With Jesus” shows the model with a champagne glass.

The final picture shows the subject waving from a window in a rehab clinic with her on/off boyfriend Pete Doherty and other celebrities.

Vine is famous for her portrait of Princess Diana with blood dripping from her mouth - bought last year by Charles Saatchi, the dubious doyen of contemporary art.

Until January 21st 2006.

See more of the Hiscox exhibition here

Background articles on Stella Vine here and here

Visit Stella Vine’s website here

More pictures here

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