Vanessa Bell

This outstanding biography - the first full-length study of Vanessa's life and work - traces her emergence from a privileged but restricted background, showing how her move to Bloomsbury and her exposure to Paris and the radical art of the Post-impressionists, paralleled an increasingly unorthodox personal life.

It explores not only Vanessa's complex emotional relationships and her influence on Bloomsbury's intellectuals, writers and artists, but also her own artistic development and achievement as a painter.