Saied Dai RP NEAC

Saied Dai is Persian by birth, born in Tehran in 1958 and came to England at the age of six. He began his seven years of art training at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and shortly after was awarded a place at the Royal Academy of Arts where he received his Post Graduate Diploma in Painting. There, he was privileged to come into contact with artists of real distinction such as Peter Greenham, Norman Blamey and Roderic Barrett.

He was regarded well enough to be invited back to the RA Schools to teach under Leonard McComb’s Keepership, where drawing was seen to be the cornerstone of all the disciplines. He says, “I was fortunate enough to be taught art as architecture. Drawing reveals the way an artist thinks. It is the means by which one makes visual relationships.”

On recommendation from Norman Blamey RA, Saied was also placed to teach at the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture in Regent’s Park at its idealistic inception.After being elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2004, he won the prestigious Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and the Society’s Gold Medal in 2006, followed by the Prince of Wales Drawing Award in 2007.

SAIED DAI PRICE GUIDE

OIL: Starting at £15,000

DRAWING: Starting from £3,000

The prices are an approximate guide for a single portrait. Much depends on content and complexity.
Frame, travel, and accommodation expenses are not included. For double portraits or any other considerations, please ask for a quote. Saied is not currently registered for VAT.

METHOD OF WORKING

I require approximately four to seven sittings from life. Thereafter, I work substantially from the drawings and studies made, thus alleviating the number of sittings required for the painting. I am willing to travel if necessary.

Selected Exhibitions:

• 2020 – Chris Beetles Gallery, NEAC group exhibition
• 2019 – Joint Exhibition, Brian Sinfied Gallery, Oxfordshire
• 2000-2020 – Royal Society of Portrait Painters
• 2009 – 2020 – The New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
• 2018 – New Perspectives, Messums Wiltshire
• 2017 – Joint Exhibition, Brian Sinfied Gallery, Oxfordshire
• 2016 – Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition
  – Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition
  – Brian Sinfied Gallery
• 2015 – Toronto Art Fair, with Messum’s
• 2014 – Messum’s Gallery, Cork Street, London
  – Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Mixed Show
  – Toronto Art Fair, with Messum’s
• 2013 – National Portrait Gallery, B.P Portrait Award Exhibition
  – Dame Monica Mason portrait commission, for The National Portrait Gallery
• 2012 – Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Mixed Show
• 2011 – Messum’s Gallery, Cork Street, London, Solo Show
  – ‘Pure Gold: 50 Years of the Federation of British Artists’, Mall Galleries, London
• 2010 – ‘The Discerning Eye’ Mall Galleries, London
  – Royal West of England Academy, Open Exhibition, invited Artist
  – ‘The Magic and Poetry of Everyday Life’, Messum’s, London
• 2009 – Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Solo Show
• 2009 – Frost and Reed, London
• 2005- 2009 – Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, mixed exhibitions
• 2008 – Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath, mixed exhibition
  – Alan Cluckow Fine Art, Sunningdale, Berkshire, Three Man Show
  – Girton College, Cambridge, Peoples Portrait Collection
  – Quest Gallery, Bath, Solo Exhibition
  – Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Prince of Wales Drawing
  School Award for Portrait Drawing
• 2006 – Holburne Museum, Bath, The Holburne Dukes Portrait Prize
  – Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, Solo Show
  2006 – National Portrait Gallery, Selection of work from the Royal Society of
  Portrait Painters Exhibition, (Winner of Ondaatje Prize for
  Portraiture)
• 2005 – Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, Solo Show
• 2004 – The Holburne Contemporary Portrait Prize Exhibition, Holburne Museum, Bath
• 2000 – National Portrait Gallery, Selected work from The Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
• 1990 – 2016 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (regular exhibitor)
  – Nairi Sahakian Gallery, London
  – B.P. Portrait Award Exhibition (Prize Winner) The National Portrait Gallery, London
  – ‘Young Contemporaries‘, (Prize Winner) Christies, London
  – Sue Rankin Gallery, London
  – Agnew’s Fine Arts, London