If the actress-turned-painter Queenie Ingrams had a van, she would trompe l’oeil the exterior to make it look as if it was created from marble. The 29-year-old hasn’t passed her driving test yet, so for now she gets the bus to her jobs — her paint-speckled Finisterre boilersuit giving away her trade. But hers isn’t just any trade: Ingrams mastered her craft with a diploma at the revered (and gruelling) Van der Kelen Logelain institute in Brussels, where for six days a week over six months she spent 11-hour days finessing a range of traditional painting techniques, including 33 marble finishes and graining the plainest of surfaces to appear like aged wood. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” she says,
