It was Varnishing Day at the studio this week. Not in the Royal Academy sense, but rather slapping on varnish that warms and softens the cool points on a painting that took two years in the making. It’s my magnum opus: five foot by seven, oil on canvas, a pastiche with a narrative (albeit a rather uncharitable satirical one) on the events leading up to and beyond the EU referendum. Using motifs from Hieronymus Bosch, I cast Boris Johnson, facing away, gazing into distant lands beyond Europe. But still I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the image.