A Portraitist of Intimacy and Unease Born in St Albans, United Kingdom, Chantal Joffe emerged from a family where the creative impulse was a shared language. With a brother, Jasper, who would also find success as an artist and novelist, and a mother, Darryl Joffe, skilled in the delicate medium of watercolors, her early environment was one deeply rooted in the visual and narrative arts. This foundational connection to creativity provi…