How to use "artist" in a sentence

A recent suspect is the famous artist Walter Sickert, known as the British Impressionist

His gloomy paintings of murder scenes were part of his vision as an artist: he liked to paint the dark, squalid side of life

In letters that were supposed to look as if they had been formed from rotting shroud cloth, the artist had emblazoned the title across the top of the first page, above a somber, well-detailed scene of a rain-swept graveyard

So I will have a love affair with the artist who is painting my picture

'There has also been some talk about that young artist, Mr Redding, hasn't there?' said Miss Wetherby.

'I wonder if there is a romance between the artist Lawrence Redding and Lettice Protheroe,' said Miss Wetherby.