A past winner of the Jerwood Painting Prize, Shani Rhys James is one of Wales's leading artists. She lives and works in a renovated 16th-century house and barn in Llangadfan, mid-Wales and her studio space is filled with large, arresting paintings combining domestic scenes with melancholy self-portraits which often depict her troubled childhood memories. This film follows Shani as she prepares for an exhibition opening in Aberystwyth in November.