Chantal Joffe’s intimate self-portraits can be unflattering, but that is why they work

The Jerwood Gallery continues to focus on its Hastings location with a powerful new show from the English painter Chantal Joffe. Although she is now based in east London, Joffe lived in Hastings as a teenager and her mother and two sisters still live there. Billed as an intimate portrait of her family, the exhibition features many of them – her sisters, nieces, husband, mother and her daughter – often  pictured on a bleak seafront, bundled up against the searing wind, with assorted dogs in