Robert Diament

to come back to Paula's drawings and to come back to her work because she really was an ally to so many different people and not just as a kind of feminist figure, but also, you know, she was very concerned about people's welfare and poverty and all kinds of different social injustice.

And I think she's such an important figure that we really have to remember and keep looking into.

And I know over the next few years, there's going to be lots of museum shows.

So we're going to have lots of opportunity for that.

And today I am meeting her wonderful son, who is a filmmaker, a writer and just a very creative individual himself, who grew up with two artist parents.

And I'm really proud and excited to be able to get an insight into the life and work and particularly the drawings of Paula Rago.

So I'd like to welcome to Talk Art, Nick Quilling.

Hi, Nick.

I know.

I can't believe it.

Really?

It's interesting because the way the seat is positioned, it's at the end of a table, but it actually gives her a kind of view of everywhere.

Like you can see through to the next room, but also she's got a kind of table in front, which has all these pencils and crayons and coloured crayons and different things.

But you feel like she probably drew here, but also would be thinking about what she was going to do next in the studio.

It feels like quite a powerful position as well.

And a very comfortable designed, it's a very stylish chair actually.

So you just took me around and there's a number of drawings here that are going to be in the forthcoming show at Victoria Miro, which opens in the middle of April and runs until the end of May.

And maybe we should start there with drawing.

It seems very apt considering that her actual pencils are in front of me.

Why was drawing so important to your mother?