Chantal Joffe
Joffe primarily paints expressive portraits of women and children, often in very large scale, sometimes 10 feet (3 m) tall. In a 2009 interview with Stella McCartney, Joffe said, “I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes – it all interests me.”[5] Source images for her personality-filled oil paintings include family photos, advertising, fashion magazines, and pornography.[6][7][8] Working roughly from her photographic source material, Joffe introduces distortions to her depictions.[9]