This Friday we feature British artist Claerwen James. Born in 1970, Claerwen James painted during her undergraduate degree in Zoology at Oxford University, where she was taught by Richard Dawkins, and throughout her postgraduate study on the molecular biology of cancer at ICRF, University College London and Cold Spring Harbor in the US. She took a Ph.D but accepted that painting, not science, was really the focus of her creative life, and retrained at the Slade School of Fine Art, graduating from the painting department in 2003 with a first class degree and winning the Melvill Nettleship Prize for Figure Composition (previously held both by Gwen Ravarat and by Gwen John.) She lives in Cambridge with the historian Jonathan Grove and their daughter. (clivejames)
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 06:00:00 +0000
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