Biography

James was born in Naul Co. Dublin 1946. After a period in horse racing, he studied painting in N.C.A.D. Dublin and began exhibiting in 1974. He has been painting full time since 1977.

Selected Group Exhibitions RHA 1979 to date, RHA Banquet Show, Oireachtas Art Exhibition, Boyle Art Festival 1993.99, Twelve Southern Artist-Elakin Gallery, Belfast 1994 C.A.S.E. Lavit Gallery 1993 to date, Arthur Gibney PRHA selected exhibition , Thomas Ryan PPRHA selected exhibition, The Irish Coast—Dillion Gallery, London Claremorris Open 1983, Irish Art University of Savannagh Georgia USA Pan Celtic Festival– Lorient Brittany, Museo De Victoriano Rome, March 2000.

His work is held in the collections of H.E. President Mary Robinson, Ailled Irish Bank, Canadian Embassy, Jefferson Smurfit Group, Irish Management Institute, Smithwicks, Tara Mines, Goffs Bloodstock Sales, Concept Gallery Pittsburg USA and the Royal Hibernian Academy, to name but a few.