Celia Paul

Celia Paul (born 1959) is an Indian-born British artist. Quotes When I first started doing self-portraits – and I didn’t start until I was in my 40s, quite late – I did these portraits where my hand was kind of stretched out toward the canvas, as if about to paint…I suppose I was imitating those famous poses of Goya or Rembrandt. But something felt so false about that. Somehow women don’t have a secure place in the history of art and to portray myself in this way standing squarely, about to paint, it wasn’t right. On her painting techniques in “Celia Paul on life after Lucian Freud: ‘I had to make this story my own’” in The Guardian (2019 Oct 27) From the earliest memory every day started with prayer and ended with prayer…And it is still in my bloodstream, even though I am not conventionally religious. I am not good at belonging to groups. But doesn’t everyone think about God? On her daily mantra in “Celia Paul on life after Lucian Freud: ‘I had to make this story my own’” in The Guardian (2019 Oct 27) When I first met Lucian he wasn’t that famous. He was notorious, but he did not have a big international reputation or anything. He was a genuinely Dostoevskian character it seemed to me, living much more on the edge. And then later he became more a national treasure and was quite seduced by that. On her lover (artist) Lucian Freud in “Celia Paul on life after Lucian Freud: ‘I had to make this story my own’” in The Guardian (2019 Oct 27) Everyone was saying that painting was dead, and really believing it. It was a very difficult time for me. I felt unsupported and isolated… On continuing to paint during the 1990s in “Celia Paul by Hilton Als” in BOMB Magazine (2015 Dec 21) External links Category:Painters from England Category:People from India Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:Immigrants to the United Kingdom