With authoritative texts and a wide array of illustrations, this handsome monograph charts Barbara Rae's long and successful career as a redoubtable travelling artist. From her native Scotland to Spain, France, Ireland, America, Italy, South Africa and the polar regions, Rae's painterly abstraction brings together her fascinations with landscape and travel. Her sketchbooks feature here, too, revealing her process as she uses them to conceive the larger works she makes in her studio. AUTHORS: Duncan MacMillan is Emeritus Professor of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Edinburgh. Robin McKie is science and environment editor of the Observer. SELLING POINTS: . Rae's painterly abstraction brings together her fascinations with landscape and travel . Featuring many previously unseen paintings 140 colour illustrations
