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Soraya French (born 1957 in Tehran) is an Iranian artist known for her vivid use of colour in acrylic based multimedia and has produced two books with Harper Collins,〔http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Authors/7769/soraya-french〕 ''30 Minute Acrylics'', and ''Dynamic Acrylics''. Townhouse films〔http://www.townhousefilms.co.uk/index.php?cPath=5_6〕 have produced an instructional DVD with Soraya called ''Dynamic Acrylics''. She is a regular contributor to The Artist magazine and regularly holds painting workshops in her studio at Project Workshop. She is a demonstrator for GOLDEN artist colors.〔http://www.goldenpaints.com/artist/wap/artist.php?uid=73〕 She is a member of the Society of Women Artists (SWA),〔http://www.society-women-artists.org.uk/Soraya_French.html〕 Society of All Artists (SAA),〔http://www.saa.co.uk/art/artex/ArtistView.aspx〕 Society for Floral Painting (SFP), Wallop Artists〔http://www.wallopartists.org.uk〕 and is the president of the Andover Art Society.〔http://www.andoverartsociety.co.uk/〕 She has won various awards, the most notable are the Daler Rowney Choice Awards at Society of Women Artists. Soraya is a versatile artist working in watercolours, oils, pastels, acrylics and mixed media in a variety of subject matters such as musicians, café scenes and African market scenes amongst others. Many of her subjects are travel based and people in everyday life situations feature a great deal in her work, light and colour are the two important elements in her paintings together with semi abstract passages and a sense of ambiguity where she allows the viewer to make up the story.〔http://www.sorayafrench.com〕 == Awards == * Runner up in Test Valley Art’s Foundation Award at The Best of Hampshire 2009 * Test Valley Art’s Foundation Award for The Best Painting by a Hampshire Artist (Best of Hampshire Exhibition) at Sir Harold Hillier’s in November 2008 * Best Miniature Society of Floral Painters Mottisfont 2006 * Artist of the Year 2005 Artist & Illustrators exhibition * Daler-Rowney Choice Award, Society of Women Artists, June 2004 * Winchester Art Club 76th annual exhibition November 2003 * Salisbury Open Award April 2003 * Fight for Sight regional competition November 2002 * Edwin Young Award April 2002 * Edwin Young Award Salisbury Open 1997 -The painting was purchased for the Edwin Young Museum collection 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Soraya French」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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