Avril Paton (Scottish b. 1941) Avril Paton, the artist who painted Windows in the West, one of Scotland's best known and most popular contemporary paintings. It was acquired for the nation by The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and is currently (2022) on display at Kelvingrove Gallery, Glasgow.

There has been much written about Paton's work from the 1980/90s explaining the meticulous detail and the many months it took to complete a single picture. Paton eventually moved on to a more spontaneous abstract style of work and consequently her earlier paintings are a distinct isolated body of work and the examples from this time are few and rarely, if ever, appear at auction.

Paton's early work from this period has ...