Uhhh, no one on this thread is discussing the contents of the article. Only the body of Kinkade's work is being discussed, and nothing the Guardian says or doesn't say about him makes his paintings any better.
As to the guts of the article
"If during this period I ever offended anybody, I am sorry. Anyone who knows me knows I always try my best to be loving ... the good news is I learned many valuable lessons from that phase of my life," he wrote in an email to gallery owners this month.
What does one learn from all this? not to drink?
Did you read the post that I was addressing? It looked like he was making the assumption that Kincaide was a drunk based on the article. There were also several other comments where people seemed to be taking the article as truth. Everyone wasn't just talking about his art and I felt the source should be brought into question.