We should enjoy this child's creativity rather than use it to sell stuff

If you've ever spent £40 ($50) and a whole weekend trying to paint out the scrawling of your young children from your rental walls in the futile hope that this will save your £1,300 deposit, you may greet the following news as I did: with a noise somewhere between a hotwater bottle being emptied and a cry of pain.

- Nell Frizzell

A Bavarian toddler, known already within the art world as Laurent Schwarz, has reportedly just landed himself a hefty brand deal with the German paint manufacturer Relius to create a range of colours, and another, separate deal with a wallpaper company-worth, presumably, thousands - all inspired by his own artwork.

Some of Laurent's acrylic paintings have sold for more than £5,000, with his mother, Lisa, promising that every penny goes into a savings account. Dubbed the "pint-sized Picasso", Schwarz is said to have a waiting list of hundreds of potential buyers, and has already exhibited his first solo show.