Cate Haste

Edinburgh-born Scottish figurative painter, Craigie Aitchison’s poetic vision and sophisticated use of colour gave eloquent meaning to his deceptively simple subjects. His distinctive and powerfully evocative style, the distillation of each image – still-lifes, crucifixions, landscapes, portraits – to their very essence of beauty and spiritual power earned him widespread critical acclaim and popularity.

Cate Haste explores the life and the work of this idiosyncratic and original artist through original documents, family archives, letters and interviews, just five years after his death.

Cate Haste is a biographer, historian and film-maker. Her last biography was a comprehensive study of the life and work of Cumbrian artist Sheila Fell, A Passion for Paint, which won the Lakeland Book of the Year Award in 2011. She has also written on political and historical subjects.