Frank Bowling sells signed prints to buy art supplies for 100 schools

Abstract painter hopes to inspire young people with fine art after government cuts made it the preserve of the elite'

Sir Frank Bowling, one of Britain's most celebrated abstract painters, is selling prints of his work to help fund art supplies for 100 primary schools in England as part of a project that he hopes will be a gamechanger" in art education by making state school students realise art isn't off limits.

Proceeds from the sale of 100 hand-signed prints will fund art packages", including canvas, paint and a six-lesson curriculum that could give about 30,000 primary schoolchildren an alternative" introduction to art.