Saied Dai

Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Oil on Gesso Panel, 36 x 24 inches
Winner of the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture, at the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 2006. Saied’s portrait is a tender, intimate and psychological portrayal of his wife. The composition is structured and architectural; the image, whilst particular, is also archetypal. The portrait is built around the design of an old Indian jacket. Saied wanted to create a painting that would read as an abstract image from a distance, before one became aware of it as a portrait.