Anne Redpath

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.