They just don’t make ’em like the Reverend anymore. The Elvis-loving, banjo plucking, gecko-wearing Howard Finster was one of the 21st century’s most inimitable, yet misunderstood Outsider Artists— a mere novelty for art critics, who wrote him off as a mad preacher with a paintbrush, and a man to be avoided by prying neighbours in small-town Georgia. Today, his works go for thousands of dollars, acquired for the collections of America’s most important art museums. Step inside the world of a visionary superstar…
