Back from spending five glorious days in 80 degree heat with throbbing blue skies in Toronto and the Canadian Lakes I find the great Freize is upon us. It has become even more enormous and on the opening night it was thronged to bursting. Only trouble is it somehow feels like being on a boat, the levels change and the flooring seems slightly sick-making, as ‘being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned’ to quote Dr Johnson. One gets the feeling of being all-at-sea (which indeed I am in the art works department) and that one is on a boat that is never going to dock and I kept looking around for the gang planks to the shore.

Showing at the same time, at Ben Brown’s gallery at Brooks Mews is Nabil Nahas. This artist’s work also seems to have a nautical flavour, as he is obsessed with starfish, indeed one canvas about 5 foot by 3 is simply scarlet starfish layered on top of one another, and strikingly beautiful. Another of his pieces, shown here, is more like a 3D vision of plankton shimmering under sunlight water.

Looking at it, I thought to myself ‘I’ve seen something like that before’ and of course then I realised, that I have in my flat in Chelsea, something very like it that I picked up for a song-or indeed less than a song- some years ago.

Could my artwork possibly be by Nahas I wondered? Well, no it couldn’t, really because it is simply a piece of carpet underlay I found lying around the office and had framed. Even so some dealers who have seen it were fooled into thinking gen-u-ine masterpiece.