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, but around 2002 she altered her practice to make prints using soft-ground etching, with the aim of creating softer effects analogous to her pencil drawings. From this point onwards she worked mostly with Dorothea Wight at Studio Prints. She has described the prints she made with Dorothea as having 'a haunting otherworldly feel'. [Studio Prints: A Survey, 2018, Marlborough Fine Art].