at home: Artists in Conversation | Celia Paul on Gwen John 

I enjoyed this so much. I have great admiration for Celia Paul and how she adapted her life so that she could have a child without having to give up her calling as a painter. I found it touching when she spoke of the pain she often felt at the separation she had brought about between herself and her son. I honestly feel that highly creative women have the cards stacked against them. As Celia says, it has to be one or the other. Thank you for this wonderful conversation.

Wow, I never thought of gestural strokes and lines as attention-seeking. That’s a new perspective for me. I always thought of them as a way to free the mind from the deceits of what it think its sees, in the same way I think of a blind contour. They are ways in - to the depths of seeing. I wonder how she gets in.

What a treat..