This years Archibald prize has been won by Sydney artist Del Kathryn Barton. The title of her painting is just as lovely as the painting "You are what is most beautiful about me", a self portrait with Kell and Arella.

Here is an exert from the AGNSW website that describes the thinking under the brush strokes ... "Del Kathryn Barton’s self-portrait depicts her with her son and daughter, Kell and Arella. “This painting celebrates the love I have for my two children and how my relationship with them has radically informed and indeed transformed my understanding of who I am,” she says. “The title of the work – you are what is most beautiful about me – alludes to that utterly profound ‘in-loveness’ that all mothers have for their children. Both my children have taken my world by storm and very little compares to the devotion I feel for them both. The intensity of this emotion is not something that I could have prepared myself for. The alchemy of life offered forth from my inhabitable woman's body is perhaps the greatest gift of my life.”