Marion Milner, a friend and colleague of D. W. Winnicott's who profoundly influenced him, offers an extremely rich account of her journey as a “Sunday painter.” In this work, first published over twenty years ago, she depicts in personal terms how she gradually let go of stereotypes ideas of reality, painting, and the corresponding experiential rigidities in order to tap deep processes of psychic creativity. She is a psychoanalyst and painter who uses her art and analytic work in ways that stimulate and amplify each other and contribute to the basic art of self-building. Her encounter with her own creativity amounts to a