A uniquely personal insight into Tracey Emin’s extraordinary life and career is revealed in art critic, writer and curator Martin Gayford’s portrait of her in My Heart is This: Tracey Emin on Painting.

In conversation with him, Emin reflects on painting – how she approaches it, why it matters to her, how it connects to her life, and how everything has changed since her cancer diagnosis.

Richly illustrated with photographs of the artist and her art, this is Tracey Emin on her own terms, relearning why painting matters to her above everything else.

“Gayford is an established confidant of painters, the artist-whisperer of Lucien Freud and David Hockney. He elicits a remarkable trove of information and opinion from Emin . . . My Heart is This is the story of how a dark stretch in her life led Emin to a new love and appreciation of paint and the greater facility at the canvas.”

Stephen Smith, Financial Times