Painting Women Writers

In 2019 Susanne du Toit was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in London to paint a portrait of the writer Jeanette Winterson for their collection.

Inspired by her encounter with Winterson, du Toit undertook a new body of work making a series of portraits: Painting Women Writers.

With preliminary sketches and notes from the artist on her process, contributions on the experience of being a sitter from the writers, an introductory essay  by art historian Sacha Llewellyn and a foreword on portraiture by Jeanette Winterson, this is a record of that project and the portraits of the women she painted.