I first read about the English painter Celia Paul in an essay by ... The last few pages of “Self-Portrait” are reproductions of Paul’s paintings of the view of the British Museum from ...

Celia Paul cried throughout her first sessions modeling for Lucian Freud. “The experience of being naked disarmed me,” Paul writes in her new memoir, Self-Portrait. She describes sitting for ...

Self-Portrait documents a woman learning to trust—not Freud, not other artists, but herself. Celia Paul was born in 1959 in India, where her father was head of a seminary. Faith was important ...

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester What happens when artists paint artists? From Lucian Freud and Celia Paul to Lubaina Himid and Claudette Johnson, this cracking show provides absorbing insights. The ...

Celia Paul, Colony of Ghosts ... I might try to paint compassionate self-portraits which communicate a sense of peace to the people who look at them.” In her 2023 portrait, Painter Seated ...

Celia Paul is “a person in love with the romance ... Paul painted her sisters in grief, repeatedly, and her self-portrait over and over. Paul has been one of her own chief subjects throughout ...

“Visionaries such as Celia and her counterparts define a post ... and the former archbishop of Canterbury. Paul says that she only started painting self-portraits successfully when she was in her ...

Celia Paul was a painter ... there hung another newly painted picture. It was a self-portrait, also large, and it depicted Paul in a color-flecked painter’s smock, reclining on a green chaise ...

We meet two days before the end of Paul’s stay, in the ascetic studio on the Zattere where she has been working. “I knew I wanted to focus on Giorgione,” she whisper-speaks with a soft ...

Celia Paul is a British artist known for her impressionistic work and intimate depictions of people and places. "Throughout all her work the sense of sight is associated with a world of potential, ...