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Rego went to school and she was also home schooled.

In 2000 she was moved by a referendum on abortion in Portugal to produce a series of prints depicting women in suffering after a backstreet operation.

Her stories are chamber operas performed in a small, oppressive picture space, but by the 1990s she had aquired the confidence to fill her paintings with more figures.

Inspired by the automatic experiments of the Surrealist Movement, Rego sought to free both herself and her practice from the constraints of tradition and rationality and to explore instead the unfettered and unconscious mind.

Here the confines of the interior space are particularly surreal.

The dog woman was her.

She would listen to his technical advice, but rarely took any notice of suggestions about the content of the pictures — their stories.

Yet Nick Willing's portrait of Paula Rego succeeds beautifully as this film recounts the unlikely story of Rego's career.

Interview with Paula Rego Dame Paula Rego introduces me into her North London home with a crooked smile and a plate of biscuits.