Charting recent developments in the practice of the London-based artist, this book focuses on a new body of work by Catherine Goodman: monumental abstract paintings that mark a significant shift in the artist’s visual language. Known for expressionistic landscape paintings, portraits, and drawings that are united by their animated surfaces, energetic brushstrokes, and distinct vitality, Goodman’s work takes on a vertiginous immersive power and spiritual depth as she moves into abstraction.

Featuring new works on view in the artist’s solo exhibition ‘Catherine Goodman. Silent Music’, at Hauser & Wirth New York, alongside paintings recently included in ‘Catherine Goodman. New Works’ at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, this monograph pairs rich illustrations of Goodman’s paintings with an illuminating essay by Jennifer Higgie, former editor of frieze magazine and author of 'The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World'. It also includes an “as told to” with Goodman that reveals the fascinating connection between drawing—a daily practice she has maintained for decades—and painting in her deeply intuitive mode of artmaking.