In Manhattan a hedge fund decides to have a famous English artist kidnapped in London to raise his prices. A black comedy set in New York, London and Glastonbury. If you liked The Big Lebowski or The Nice Guys, you'll love Paintbox which does for the art world what Spinal Tap did for the music business.

Paintbox is the story of ludicrously famous, fabulously rich English painter, Rupert, a famed artist whose unreliability exacerbated by his coke and booze habits is causing mayhem in the rarefied world of Contemporary Art ie he thinks it’s fun to trash his reputation. An American hedge fund anxious to restore his prices, have him kidnapped by a group of female performance artists. In his new found sobriety, Rupert does his best work in many years. The publicity of his kidnapping goes viral globally. The kidnappers enjoy living in an English manor house in Glastonbury as the legendary music festival approaches, getting drunk and high every night. However, love develops between Rupert and the boss of his captors.