Chantal Joffe

Chantal Joffe is a British painter celebrated for her large-scale, emotionally charged figurative works depicting women, children, and self-portraits rendered with gestural brushwork and psychological intensity. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and has exhibited widely at institutions including Victoria Miro Gallery in London, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the National Portrait Gallery. Her practice explores themes of femininity, domesticity, vulnerability, and the gaze, earning her recognition as one of the foremost contemporary figurative painters in Britain.