Celia Paul

Celia Paul is a painter and the author of Self-Portrait and Letters to Gwen John. Her major solo exhibitions include “Celia Paul,” at the Yale Center for British Art and The Huntington, San Marino, and “Gwen John and Celia Paul,” at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. (March 2025)

Painting Myself

I want the self-portraits I make to convey a sort of security, to transform the reflected “she” in the mirror into the real “I.”

March 13, 2025 issue

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