Written and produced by Michael Gill.
Three studies of artists who wrote, as well as painted, their own self-portraits

Vincent van Gogh's painting career occupied only the last ten years of his life. Largely self-taught, misunderstood, constantly harried by ill-health and poverty, his life embodies in an extreme form the isolation of the modern artist. He left more than 800 paintings, but only one was sold in his own lifetime.
(First shown on BBC-1)