A Wild and Beautiful Art : The Life of Joan Eardley

'As the storm rages, the sea throws up gigantic waves.

Paintbrush in hand, she battles, as she harnesses the weather, sky, land and sea.'Joan Eardley was a passionate painter who, in a short career, managed to create some of the most important works of the twentieth century.

Working predominantly in Scotland, Eardley also documented the children of the Glasgow tenements from the 1940s up until her untimely death at only forty-two in 1963. Hers was a truly wild and beautiful art. Come and take a look inside her world...