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- Joffe actually painted this picture from a photo about a month after giving birth. "I wasn't really in a fit state to paint her the day she was born," she laughs. The artist says she wanted to paint the new arrival partly because she was hardly able to take her in at the time.
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Aug 14, 2019 · Chantal took a photograph of her teenage daughter – 'who was looking particularly paintable in her striped top and beret' - and created this work based on the snapshot. The painting is a deceptively simple concoction of broad, gestural brushstrokes.
May 26, 2018 · Joffe has looked to Modersohn-Becker for years: ‘It’s the way she paints the connection between mother and child, the baby breastfeeding and looking back at its mother. I hope we share that directness.’
- Harriet Baker
Jan 27, 2020 · Joffe painted “Self Portrait Pregnant II” during her pregnancy, after years of painting her friends pregnant. She once commented on this kind of portrait: “It’s visually fascinating – people pregnant are quite gripping as a subject because it’s so extreme.
Jun 7, 2018 · From pregnancy to birth, growing up to growing old, Chantal Joffe captures the stages of life.
Feb 26, 2016 · Chantal Joffe: ‘I want to make the painting feel like the person’. The artist talks about what she seeks to capture in a painting, how motherhood changed her, and why she is drawn to confessional poetry. by ANNA McNAY.
Sep 19, 2020 · In a corner of the painter Chantal Joffe’s studio, scenes of family life unfold across a series of canvases. In one, a days-old baby, wriggling and pink, is bathed in a small tub. In another, a woman smokes languidly next to a toddler in a smock.
