Exploring both figuration and abstraction, William Scott developed a distinctly individual style of Modernism in his paintings and drawings. He contributed to several movements and shifts in painting in British and international contexts, but throughout his career he retained a strong but self-effacing individualism. This elegantly designed book contains many previously unseen paintings and drawings, including landscapes, figure paintings and still-life motifs merged with abstraction. William Scott: Paintings and Drawings provides the only full assessment of the artist's work to have been published since his death in 1989. New approaches to the artist's work are explored, and are accompanied by writings by contemporary critics and the artist himself. Drawing was central to Scott's practice, and this is reflected in the large number of drawings reproduced in this book; Scott described drawing as a process of "exploring, not explaining, containing, geometry, sex, distortion and correction, forms pure or impure".