Ed Sheeran buys an unlikely piece of farm furniture to house his new hobby

08 August 2023 , 20:59

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Ed Sheeran has taken up painting

Ed Sheeran will be spending a lot of time pottering in a pig shed this summer.

The singer has bought a livestock shelter to put in his garden for a space to continue his new painting hobby. The musician paints Jackson Pollock-style art works, and one previously sold for £51,000 at a charity auction.

“It’s a big, corrugated iron warehouse and I’m going to paint art inside it – a pig shed, to paint in,” Ed says. By the time he’s splashed loads of paint around, the place will certainly look like a sty.

The star has evidently been on a spending splurge as he also reveals he has bought Peter Pan’s outfit from the film Hook, as worn by Robin Williams, for £15,000 as well as a sword from another character from the film, Rufio. “I like film props,” he explains in a US interview.

Ed has bought a pig shed (Getty Images North America)

Surprisingly however, he doesn’t really own much of his own memorabilia, having auctioned most of that off for charity, except his suit from the Bad Habits video and the puppet version of Ed from the video for Sing.

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“I sorta wish I’d hung on to some of it,” he admits. Although he’d have had to install another shed at his £3.7million Suffolk estate, to keep it all in.

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