TESTIMONIALS
From Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, February 2012:
"Over the years I have been lucky enough to be asked to sit for a number of painters - mostly women - but none of them has made the experience so painless - indeed so pleasurable - as Celia, whose concern for the comfort of the sitter is quite exceptional. Not that this exceptional courtesy is wholly selfless since the sitter in return, is only too happy to give up as much time as the painter requires.
"In my case there were over ten three-hour sittings extending through the summer, by the end of which I had had time to study the painter quite as much, and quite as intently, as the painter had had time to study me. So far as I am concerned the many hours spent were wholly worthwhile because both the portrait and the painter are now very close to my heart. Not that the portrait, to my eye, is particularly flattering. I still think my mouth is slightly twisted, as if I had suffered a mild stroke. Proudly, however, we hang it in our dining room, dominating the room, to universal acclaim."
