Andrew James RP

2002 Elected Member Royal Society of Portrait Artists

2004 Featured on BBC's Star Portrait

A body of work was built up between 1995 -1998 leading to the successful entry into the London art scene by wining the Carroll Foundation Award for the portrait Ivy Cole, bestowed by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) in their 1998 annual exhibition

Regular exhibitions with the RP led to Andrew becoming an elected member in 2002 and in 2008 he became the Society's Vice President.

A 2003 solo show at the Mall Galleries in London was followed in 2004 by Andrew's involvement in BBC1 Star Portrait with Rolf Harris. The portrait of David Dickinson was selected by the TV antiques expert at the reveal of the portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.

Since 2004 Andrew has been working continuously on commissioned portraits while still producing a broad range of other portrait and non portrait work.