Celia Paul is an Indian-born British artist. She is a British Citizen. From 1976–81 she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she met Lucian Freud who was a visiting tutor. She had a relationship with Freud between 1978 and 1988 and has a son by him, Frank Paul, who is also an artist. Celia Paul appears in several paintings by Freud, including Girl in a Striped Nightshirt.
Paul paints her family and close fiends, her Spartan studio in London's Bloomsbury, and the vista from it. With these limited subjects, she digs deep, moves slowly, refines nuance, and takes the viewer wonderfully into her own world. Her portraits are loosely painted in delicate white-grey-brown tonalities, and turn crucially on light effects. Sun streaming into the studio at varying hour s and seasons marks time and its passing, while an inner glow emanates from each figure.
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