This monograph by Amanda Geitner recounts the career of Bridget Heriz, an artist whose work is filled with experience and emotion. Heriz explores her subject matter, in particular the human figure, with exceptional energy and invention through sculpture in clay, plaster, cement and bronze, and in recent years in wire, paper, card and board, and in drawings and watercolours. ‘Massed on the shelf in her studio,’ Geitner writes, ‘they are like a benevolent crowd, quietly and attentively witness to the artist’s life . . .’