Paula Rego's son, Nick Willing, joins TalkArt with Robert Diament to discuss Rego's drawing practice: a means through which she understood herself and the world around her, discovering ways of expressing complex ideas through a single image.
'She was more interested in how pictures can tell stories… Although she starts with a classic story, as she's making the pictures, the story starts to change. And she lets it go, she let's it change as it follows wherever it takes her. And as she's making it, she starts to realise that the reason it's changing is because it's becoming about her, and her life.'
Image: Paula Rego, She Doesn't Want It, 2007Graphite and conté pencil on paper
137 x 102 cm
54 x 40 1/8 in
© Estate of Paula Rego
Courtesy Estate of Paula Rego and Victoria Miro
April 17 2026
