Concepts; My desire is to produce powerful, emotional paintings which are read for their content, their colour and their abstract elements. I have to be emotionally and mentally taken over by my paintings. They are seemingly direct ; I paint about the studio, the kitchen, the artist, my children, childhood memories, so imaginative and observational elements co-exist in each work. I have also made automata
Qualifications and training 1976 - BA Hons, Fine Art, St Martins College of Art, London 1972 - Foundation Course, Loughborough College of Art
Solo exhibitions; 2013 Florilingua installation at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Rivalry of Flowers at Kings Place Gallery London University of Northumbria Gallery Newcastle and Aberystwyth Arts Centre, New Paintings Martin Tinney Gallery Cardiff; 2012 Floribunda at Connaught Brown Fine Art London; 2010 - Selected Paintings, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin 2010 - Shani Rhys James 2010, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff; 2009 - Two Ateliers, Connaught Brown , London 2008 - Martin Tinney Gallery, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff; 2008 - Shani Rhys James New Paintings, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff 2005 - Layers, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff 2004 - The Black Cot, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth 2004 - The Black Cot Touring Show, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton 2003 - Recent Paintings, Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff 2003 - Significant Paintings, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth 2000 - The Inner Room, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London 1998 - Facing The Self, Oriel 31, New Town 1997 - Facing The Self, Initiated By Mostyn, Llandudno 1997 - Facing The Self, Oriel, The Arts Council of Wales Gallery, Cardiff 1997 - Facing The Self, Reeds Wharf Gallery, London 1996 - Re-Visions, Midlands Art Centre 1994 - Blood Ties, Carmarthen Gallery 1994 - Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea 1994 - Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham 1994 - Newport Museum and Art Gallery 1993 - Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff 1993 - National Museum of Wales, Llanberis 1993 - Wrexham Library Arts Centre 1992 - Beaux Arts, Bath
Group exhibitions 2012; Trois Rivieres Quebec Print Commission; 2011 - I Cannot Escape This Place at National Museum Cardiff, 400 Women at Shoreditch Town Hall and Edinburgh Festival, Moist at Tactile Bosch, Cardiff; Aberystwyth Paper Press Print Portfolio, Polemically Small, Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles 2011 - Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition, Kings Place Gallery, Islington; 2010 - Eigse Carlow Exhibition, Visual, Carlow, Republic of Ireland 2010 - Face Value Portraiture in Art, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport, South Wales 2010 - Gallery Artists, John Cacciola Gallery, New York, Chicago and Toronto Art Fairs with Jogn Cacciola Gallery; 2009 - Mae Newid yn Change (2-person show with Bedwyr Williams) at Gallerie Good Friday Brussels 2008 - British Artists of Poitou Charente, Maison du Patrimoine, Tusson, France, Angouleme 2008 - Connaught Brown, Connaught Brown, London 2008 - On Reflection, Glyn Vivian Museum and Art Gallery, Swansea 2008 - 'Romance' exhibition at DACS, DACS Gallery, London 2007 - How many steps to addiction....?, Tactile Bosch Studios, Cardiff 2004 - An Art-Accustomed Eye, National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff 2004 - The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2003 - Jerwood Prize Exhibition, Jerwood Space, London 2002 - Lets Panic Later, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund 2002 - On Home Ground, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno 2001 - 20th & 21st Century Art, Water Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 2001 - Intimacy, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno 2000 - Featured Artist, Eigse Carlow Festival, Carlow Ireland 1999 - 20th Century Art, Gas Hall Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham 1999 - Pure Paint, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London 1999 - Something to Say III - contemporary collection of women artists, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton 1996 - In the Looking Glass, Usher Gallery Touring Exhibition, Lincoln 1994 - Artist At Work, Walker Art Gallery 1994 - BP National Portrait Awards, London 1994 - Disclosures, Mostyn Art Gallery 1994 - Hunting/Observer winners exhibition, Royal College 1993 - Reclaiming The Madonna, Usher Gallery and Tour 1993 - Welsh Artists In San Francisco 1992 - Beaux Arts, Bath 1992 - National Eisteddfod of Wales 1992 - Two Person Show, Aberystwyth 1991 - Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno Curated projects 2009 - Mae Newid yn Change, The Good Friday Gallery Rue d'Ophem 55, Brussels Competitions, prizes and awards 2006 - Awarded M.B.E. in New Years Honours List, London, Buckingham Palace 2006 - Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales, Cardiff 2003 - Jerwood Painting Prize 1994 - 2nd Prize National Portrait Award 1994 - BBC Wales Visual Art Award 1993 - 1st Prize Hunting/Observer Art Awards 1992 - Gold Medal for Fine Art National Eisteddfod of Wales 1991 - 1st prize Mostyn Open Other 2008 - Hereford College of Arts, Hereford College of Arts, Hereford
