Persian by birth, Saied Dai was born in Tehran in 1958. He began his seven years of art training at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and subsequently The Royal Academy of Arts for his postgraduate studies.
He was invited back to the RA Schools to teach under Leonard McComb’s keepership, where drawing was seen to be the cornerstone of all the disciplines. He also taught at the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture in Regent’s Park as well as a number of other prominent arts schools from Foundation to postgraduat