Unity Spencer: my father Stanley was naive

She is the daughter of the great painter Stanley Spencer, and she has put the trauma and tragedy of her life into her own paintings. As she publishes her autobiography, Lucky to Be an Artist, Unity Spencer talks about breakdowns, losing her son – and her father’s marriage to a ‘predatory lesbian’In an elegant claret-coloured anteroom, a heated discussion is taking place: a tangerine scream of a painting has been rejected by the curators hanging Unity Spencer’s life’s work. It must go