As Esther Freud publishes her new novel – a sequel to Hideous Kinky (1992) that follows two sisters navigating life hampered ...

The book explores how the British artist's mother was her most trusted sitter and Paul's thoughts on Lucian Freud’s depictions of her during their relationship ...

More than 80 voices echo through this show, including Lucian Freud, Paula Rego, Lubaina Himid, David Hockney, Lee Miller, Francis Bacon, Barbara Hepworth, Maggie Hambling and Peter Blake. Pallant ...

They depend heavily on "those who get it " – "friends, family or romantic partners", who more likely than not "will often also be artists". Unsurprisingly, these collaborators frequently end up ...

One intimate moment comes with Celia Paul's portrait of Lucian Freud sleeping, itself juxtaposed with Freud's own likeness of Paul.

It would be easy, in a show like this, to reduce art to the self-indulgent byproduct of a small coterie of insiders, yet the curators have been smart enough not only to avoid this pitfall but to ...

She describes her response in painting to the artists of the School of London, including Lucian Freud, with whom she was once in a relationship, and Frank Auerbach.

Celia Paul is “a person in love with the romance of that which can never be,” or so says critic Hilton Als in a new monograph of her work. That sense of nostalgia permeates the British painter ...

“Lucian Freud,” said my friend, as we stood in front of a female nude, lying on her back, knees bent, a hard-boiled egg on a plate below her. It certainly was Freud-like: and in a show called ...

The exhibition’s titular work performs this divine feat of painterly justice too. Past haunts the present, but only so Paul can now stare long and hard into the issues of yesterday. Featuring the ...

Lucian Freud’s Sitters Celia Paul 3019 words Lucian Freud resembled certain film directors – Ingmar Bergman, for example – in that the lead characters in his works influenced the way the creation took ...