I don't see any lieing by the artist and certainly not to you. The images were shared with a total of 3000 people by the artist, I doubt you were one of them.

I don't see any lieing by the artist and certainly not to you. The images were shared with a total of 3000 people by the artist, I doubt you were one of them. If anyone engaged in deception here, it is the publications and "journalists" that reused the images without permission and without doing any basic legwork.