Eric Tucker was an unskilled labourer who lived his life in quiet obscurity. Never moving out of his parents' house, his days appeared to revolve around trips to the pub and the bookies. But behind closed doors, he was an accomplished and prolific painter – a fact even close family only came to fully appreciate at the very end of his life, when they uncovered more than 500 paintings tucked away in his end-of-terrace house. Eric's nephew, Joe Tucker, a TV scriptwriter, has now written a memoir-biography, The Secret Painter, telling the story of his uncle's life and unlikely posthumous recognition, and raising questions around how art and social class interact.