Claerwen James

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

She studied zoology at Oxford, and then travelled to Madagascar to study lemurs. She then conducted molecular biology research in programmed cell death, including the genetic manipulation of apoptosis with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and completed a Ph.D. She was for a while also a visiting researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, United States.

Then deciding to seriously pursue her long interest in art, she enrolled in the Slade School of Art. After graduating her first major solo show was at the Flowers Central Gallery in London in 2006. She specialises in portraiture, particularly of young people, based on photographs.^[1]

She is married to Jonathan Grove, a scholar of medieval Icelandic literature and lecturer in the Scandinavian History of the Viking Age at Cambridge.