I first met Portuguese-born British artist Paula Rego 20 years ago, interviewed her again as she turned 80 and had a final conversation by e-mail last year, just before a magnificent retrospective of her work at the Tate Modern in London it was quite possibly the last interview she gave.
Our first meeting she would have been in her 60s was in her studio in Kentish Town, an area of northwest London. She came across as a thriving Londoner and, at the same time, as unswervingly Portuguese.
Her studio was filled with outlandish creatures a life-sized horse, a
LONDON (AP) Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego, who created bold, visceral works inspired by fairy tales, her homeland and her own life, has died at age 87.