Artist Quinn’s new muse
A MODEL of artist Marc Quinn’s head made with nine pints of his own blood once melted after builders switched off the freezer where art collector Charles Saatchi stored it at the Belgravia mansion he shared with then girlfriend Nigella Lawson.
Quinn’s love life seems to be even more fragile. After divorcing Lady Georgia Byng, daughter of the Earl of Strafford, in 2015, the 53year-old sculptor took up with dancer Jenny Bastet.
Now, I hear he’s dumped Jenny (left) and found a new muse: model Layla Powell, 30 (right), who runs a London spa. ‘Jenny’s devastated and the split is very acrimonious,’ a friend says. ‘She really supported Marc through big changes in his life.’