ARTIST INFORMATION
Raju Shah
RAJU SHAH (SOBHAG) has lived in London since 1957. He is a retired Chartered Surveyor. His interest in Chinese painting came about in 1984 after a family holiday in Japan. He has studied various techniques of Chinese and Japanese brush painting. His initial introduction to this technique was through the late Mrs Chien-Ying Fei and her husband Cheng Wu Fei, who both studied at the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Art under the famous Xu Beihong and the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the 1940's. His other teacher was Pak Tin Li. He also attended the "Life drawing the Chinese way" course by Qu Lei Lei at the V&A and the "Chinese Landscape Painting" course by Guo Le at the British Museum. Over the years he has exhibited his works and raised money for various charities. More recently one of his Tiger paintings was sold and benefited the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. Since retiring in 1999, he has worked for a year as a volunteer at the British Museum in the Chinese Section. At present he is working as a volunteer at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Indian and South East Asian Department.
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