Article printed in the Life section of The Southern Reporter May 2008
“Faye the Borders to the RSA - SELKIRK artist Faye Anderson has won the Royal Scottish Academy’s prestigious Latimer Award.
The accolade, which acknowledges “meritorious work by a young Scottish artists”, is for Anderson’s stunning oil-on-linen portrait Snowflake, which is featured in the current RSA exhibition.
“In my work I try to capture the spirit of the sitter and attempt to create an aesthetically engaging painting,” Faye told Life. “My main artistic influences are Scottish art and the Italian Renaissance.”
Anderson grew up in the Royal and Ancient Burgh and attended Selkirk high before studying at Grays’s School of Art in Aberdeen. After art school, she moved to Edinburgh where she was a support worker before starting to paint seriously again at the end of last year.
Since then her work has been selected by Davina McCall for the 2007 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition and was shown in the 2008 Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.
The RSA exhibition continues until June 25”