The many faces of Ebola

LONDON, United Kingdom — “So, you’ve just got back from Sierra Leone. I’m assuming you’re fine? You aren’t sick are you?” I swallow hard but try and sound casual. His expression tells me this is not an unfamiliar question: “I got back two months ago. If I’d caught Ebola, I would probably be dead by now. But you don’t catch it that easily – this misconception is part of the problem I’m trying to address here.”

It is a bitingly cold Friday morning and I am sitting with the artist Tim Benson in his studio in the evocatively named Chocolate Factory in North London. Tim arrived at 9.30am and will paint for the next four to five hours, unless he is teaching, then he will return after class and paint into the evening.

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