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SHANI RHYS JAMES

ELECTED IN 2004

Shani Rhys James MBE has won many prizes and awards including the Jerwood Painting Prize; Woman of Culture, Welsh Women of the Year Awards; Prize Winner, BP National Portrait Award; First Prize, Hunting/Observer Art Prizes; Gold Medal for Fine Art, Royal National Eisteddfod.

“I often think in terms of a tableau. I’m trying to think of my next; I’ve got a big seven foot by six foot canvas in the studio. I build up to those images. I don’t do lots of preparatory drawings, like a lot of people do, I just go bang in and I never know quite what I’m doing. But I might have a kind of a tableau vision in my head of what I’m going to do. And often looking at other work can be very stimulating, if you look through a book or you’re looking at Cranach or Rembrandt or Valazquez or looking at a Picasso.”

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