Elizabeth Blackadder is one of the most popular and respected artists at work today in the British Isles. Her work ranges through still life, landscape and flower painting. She lives and works in Scotland and belongs to the tradition of Scottish painters like William Gillies, one of her teachers, and Anne Redpath. She has exhibited in London and elsewhere since the early sixties and her paintings are known to a wide public through extensive reproduction. Elizabeth Blackadder is the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy.

This book explores the development of Elizabeth Blackadder’s art in all its richness. It includes 71 colour illustrations and it is published in a standard and in a limited edition. A chronology, selected bibliography, lists of solo and selected group exhibitions, and works in public collections provide valuable reference material.

Elizabeth Blackadder is a productive and widely collected artist printmaker. For the limited edition of this volume she has created a new, original etching The Lily. The edition is limited to 100 copies and the print is numbered and signed by the artist. It is presented in a slipcase.

Contents: Elizabeth Blackadder; Childhood and student years; Marriage; Early travels in Europe; Early printmaking; Paintings of the 1950s and 1960s; The Mercury Gallery; Paintings of the 1970s; Flowers, gardens and cats; Japanese paper: a new departure; Journeys to Japan; Printmaking in Glasgow; Depth, surface and reflection; A return to oil painting; List of plates; Chronology; Selected bibliography; Selected exhibitions.

About the Author: Duncan Macmillan, art critic and art historian, has written extensively on Scottish art and artists. His prize winning book Scottish Art 1460-1990 is the standard text on the subject.

Reviews: ‘...[a] splendid and sympathetic study of Elizabeth Blackadder’s life...’ R A Magazine

‘[Blackadder’s] work remains totally distinctive, as is shown in the colour illustrations included in this wonderful book.’ The Good Book Guide

‘[Macmillan] maintains his hold on the reader’s attention and concentrates, quite properly, on the work. This is an...account of an impressive body of work which can stand on its own, unembellished by the anecdotal and the trivial.’ The Artist