Paula Rego #8

Paula Rego's north London studio, 2018.

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Let’s begin here, in the studio itself. Can you tell us about your relationship with the space?

Since buying our house in London in 1963 I’ve had many studios. I worked from an upstairs room to start with and then a shed at the bottom of the garden. We'd spend every summer in Ericeira [in Portugal] where I worked in a large barn my grandfather had once used to make the wine. Once a barn owl flew in like the angel of death and a rat dropped from the rafters and splattered on the floor. I loved that studio. When we moved house, in London, I rented various places. I had a Space studio in Berry Street which had no windows and then one in Islington. The studio I have now I bought in 1993 from my stretcher-makers. The moment I walked in here I said, ‘This is it’, and I went straight to the bank. It’s the place I feel best in. It is where I belong.
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(bron: Vogue)