Claerwen James

Claerwen James

Claerwen James (born 1970) is a British painter, the daughter of the writer Clive James and the scholar Prue Shaw.

She studied zoology at Oxford. She then did postgraduate research on the molecular biology of programmed cell death (apoptosis) in the Biochemistry of the Cell Nucleus Laboratory at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and completed a Ph.D. During this time she was for a short while a visiting researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, United States.

From 1999 to 2003 she trained in the painting department of the Slade School of Art. She has been represented by the Flowers Central Gallery since 2006 with solo shows in London in 2006 and 2008, and in New York in 2010. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art in Spanbroek, in the Netherlands, and the University of Cambridge. She specialises in portraiture, particularly of young people, based on photographs.[1]She makes prints with the legendary master printmaker Kip Gresham at the Print Studio in Cambridge. [2]

References

  • Review - Sue Hubbard, "The Independent", London, May 19, 2008 [2]
  • Review - Martin Coomer, "Modern Painters", London, July-August 2006
  • Relative Values - Interview, Angela Neustatter, The Sunday Times, London, May 14, 2006 online
  • Claerwen James, clivejames.com
  1. ^ 2006 Flowers Gallery Exhibition Catalogue Note, Francis Spufford, clivejames.com
  2. ^ [1]

External links

  • [3], Flowers Gallery
  • [4], Film of Claerwen James making screenprints with Kip Gresham at the Print Studio