Redpath: 1895-1965 : her life and work

Anne Redpath is a well-known Scottish painter. This is her life story, from her secure small-town childhood in the Scottish Borders to her frenetic and peripatetic final years. She is revealed as an intellectual who painted the most direct and sensual paintings. At the start of a promising career, she all but gave up painting for 15 years. Brought up as a strict congregationalist, whe developed a passion for Catholic architecture and ornament. Despite her left-wing views, she had a weakness for Parisian couture. She was an internationalist who remained a committed Scot.