Celia Paul (born 11 November 1959) is an Indian-born British painter, best known for her intense, haunting portraits of her close family and herself.^[1] Paul lives and works in London. From the age of 18 to 28, Paul was in a romantic relationship with British painter Lucian Freud.

Celia Paul’s paintings are intimate depictions of people and places that she knows well. She does no portrait commissions. Her paintings have a haunting otherworldly feeling. Celia Paul worked on a series of paintings of her mother from 1977 to 2007 and since then she has concentrated on her four sisters, especially her sister Kate. “…[T]he real strength of Paul’s project becomes apparent with time: the concentrated emotional energy of chronicling a family and its subtle shifts over many years” Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times.  She has works in major public collections including The Met  (New York), British Museum, and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.