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Celia Paul — Kate and Me on the Yorkshire Moors
Celia Paul

Kate and Me on the Yorkshire Moors

2025

Two pale, ethereal figures in white garments stand side by side against a luminous, mist laden landscape rendered in soft greens and yellows. Their gazes are directed upward with an almost transcendent quality, while the rolling terrain beneath them dissolves into gestural brushwork that suggests the windswept moorlands of northern England. The composition employs a restrained palette dominated by cream, sage, and pale yellow tones, creating an atmospheric dreamlike quality that prioritizes psychological presence over naturalistic detail. Paul's characteristically fluid handling of paint and her sustained focus on the human figure in conversation with landscape positions this work within her broader exploration of intimacy, memory, and the intersection of portraiture and environmental abstraction.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Overall

Notes

Victoria Miro, Frieze New York 2026, Booth A07, May 13–17, 2026.

For Sale — £40000

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Celia Paul, Kate and Me on the Yorkshire Moors, 2025

Two pale, ethereal figures in white garments stand side by side against a luminous, mist laden landscape rendered in soft greens and yellows. Their gazes are directed upward with an almost transcendent quality, while the rolling terrain beneath them dissolves into gestural brushwork that suggests the windswept moorlands of northern England. The composition employs a restrained palette dominated by cream, sage, and pale yellow tones, creating an atmospheric dreamlike quality that prioritizes psychological presence over naturalistic detail. Paul's characteristically fluid handling of paint and her sustained focus on the human figure in conversation with landscape positions this work within her broader exploration of intimacy, memory, and the intersection of portraiture and environmental abstraction.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 76.2 x 81.3 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
Victoria Miro Gallery, United Kingdom

Related themes

Atmospheric, Psychological, Museum Quality, Modernist, Spiritual, Ethereal, Gestural Brushwork, British Artist, Landscape, Portraiture, Interior Landscape, Nature, Contemporary Art, British Contemporary, Pale Palette, Figure Painting, Intimate Scale, Figurative, Oil on Canvas, Female Subjects

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