Paula Rego

Associate Artist 1989-90

Born in Portugal in 1935, Paula Rego came to England to study at the Slade School of Art in 1952.

Paula Rego in her studio

Her large-scale figurative pictures offer complex narratives that are loaded with psychological tensions and dramas, exploring a whole range of emotions that lie just below the surface of things. Paula Rego, 'Crivelli’s Garden (The Visitation)', 1990