Celia Birtwell is a successful textiles designer and fashion designer (her latest collection sold out at Top Shop in ten minutes), but she has regularly modelled for her friend David Hockney over the years. As a result, his portraits of her hang in art collectors' homes all over the globe. I often wondered what it would be like to have to patiently sit still for hours while being painted or drawn. In the early Seventies, I found out. Peter Schlesinger, David Hockney's ex-boyfriend used to be a talented painter, but has since switched to being a successful sculptor. I'm the eldest of three girls and initially, he wanted to paint a portrait of us all together.
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