James Stickland

James Stickland is a passionate Sunshine Coast based portrait painter working from oils.

Assessing the sitter and capturing a soul onto canvas is his inspiration to push each painting in a process of revelation until the final result brings a likeness but more importantly a trueness of one's self. Winner of the Kenilworth Art Award, Immanuel Art Prize and a finalist in the Perth Lester Prize, Townsville Percivals Portrait Prize, Brisbane Portrait Prize Salon de Refuses, 3 times semi-finalist Doug Moran, Qld figurative Art Prize, Lethbridge Small scale Art Prize with works held internationally and throughout Australia.

He paints as it "makes him sing inside".