A Consideration of Time: Celia Paul’s Monograph and Memory

In our frantic, screen-obsessed culture, it is refreshing to gaze at paintings that are still. We have Morandi and Vermeer, masters of quiet stillness, but the art made today tends towards a flotilla of wild color and exuberant gesture. Yet, we do have the British artist Celia Paul, who paints portraits, a chair, one bed, the sea, a window, the tree out her window, a building out the same window and herself, still and quiet. These are not still lifes; they are subjects imbued with an inner life...