The ordeal of sitting for my father Lucian Freud spectator.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spectator.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
David Freud, 56, has spent years refining skills as painter but says he s retraining
The great-grandson of Sigmund Freud is retraining to become a psychotherapist
David has revealed how counselling helped him come to terms with family s past
The 56-year-old, who was speaking at the launch of his latest exhibition, has said Freud name has not always been helpful to career despite having some upsides
1/1 AS an artist David Freud has impeccable pedigree. His father, Lucian, was after all, one of the greatest portraitists of the 20th century and was grandson of the psychologist Sigmund Freud. But with his father absent for much of his life, it was David’s mother, Kay McAdam, who inspired him and his three siblings to take their first steps as an artist. “My mother was a wonderful artist who’d painted backdrops in churches whilst in Catholic boarding school, and made dresses for West End theatre after St Martin’s school of art where she met my father, Lucian,” says the artist, who has installed an exhibition of his work at Woodstock’s Dantzig Gallery, as part of its series of pop-up shows.