Celia Paul (born 1959) is a painter and printmaker, best know for her quiet contemplative portraits, landscapes and views of London from the windows of her studio in Bloomsbury. Her sitters are family and close friends, including her four sisters. Her most regular sitter (for prints and paintings), over many years, has been her mother. Her printed portraits are mostly small-scale, spare, intense and intimate. Paul's earliest prints were hard-ground etchings, as in this example, before she altered her practice to make prints, using soft-ground etching with the aim of creating softer effects analogous to her pencil drawings.