Paul Henry is one of the best known Irish landscape painters. In this autobiography he writes of his experience in Connemara and Mayo and on Achill Island and of the tremendous influence which his years in the West had on his work as an artist. The author also writes of his life and his friends, many of them famous, in Paris and in London where his early years were passed, but it is the chapters dealing with the West of Ireland which dominate the book, just as the influence of the West was to dominate his art.