Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong
Chinnery Room, Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong… note the George Chinnery self portrait by the bar, a British painter who lived and worked in Asia 1774-1852.. artistic Liscence as the portrait wasn’t really there! Chinese Ink on rice paper 2018
Fish Market, some of the organs were still pumping blood, this woman was choosing fish heads maybe for fish head soup.. or my favourite fish lip soup (joking, but do love the name) 2017 Chinese inks and acrylics on rice paper
Cut throat shave , at a hole in the wall barber, Sai Ying Pun, this guy appears tiny in the construction bas-relief if you can find him.. 42 x 46cms 2017 mixed media
Panic Shopping start of the pandemic January 2020 Chinese New Year lanterns still hanging in the streets. The start of panic shopping for toilet rolls. Note Carrie Lam (right) wearing a mask seen for the first time, seemingly soon after the anti mask law for protesters was implemented October 2019
Fishmonger in white wellies having a quick cigarette, fish hearts are still pumping. Butcher with hooked tongues and trotters dripping into the bucket. 2016, mixed media
Chef’s table Wellington Street, 2016
Pork Chop, a moment hard to un-see in Ap Lei Chau wet market 2016
Protests, Wanchai 2019, in the heart of the demonstrations. I spent some time photographing and drawing at the protests. Masks then worn for protection against tear gas which seems now a strange precursor to masked faces everywhere the following year of the pandemic.
Private views, women with champagne and mobile phone. This ink is in Soho House in the Blue room part of their HK collection. (right) Christies lounge with a grinning Murakami inflatable 2011
Chefs cigarette break, Chinese inks on rice paper. 2016 This is in Soho House Collection (HK) in the blue room
Vernissage, These women looked like they’d stepped straight out of a Luis Chan painting behind them, private view Hanart Gallery 2017 Art Basel. Ink and acrylic on rice paper
Red Wine tasting maybe Pinot, Burgandy, Bordeaux or maybe Merlot can’t remember but a great scene to animate… see animate section. Ink on rice paper 2016