Behind the scenes at Sai Ying Pun — LOUISE SOLOWAY CHAN

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Pencil-Ink-Watercolour

Painting-Sculpture

Pizza Bases Faces

Public Art MTRC

Pencil-Ink-Watercolour

Painting-Sculpture

Pizza Bases Faces

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Public Art MTRC

Pencil-Ink-Watercolour

Painting-Sculpture

Pizza Bases Faces

Behind the scenes.

Making, delivery and installation the large Bas-Relief panels

Clay & Processes

Kung Hei Fat Choi… ! Thrilled to be commissioned on this updated Chinese New Year 🐉🧧 Dragon billboard featuring the latest @asics trainer design.. fab new shoes with part of the dragon on the soles , spikey shards and scales swishing by.. lo

Gingerbread Hug

‘Tis the season to be jolly’.. Sightings in shopping centers. Wishing you all some festive cheer, especially anyone in need of a hug… with so many dire situations out there right now… a big warm gingery cin

Roughing it in Asia ‘Forbidden City’ RHKYC Ball inspired by one of my favourite paintings ‘Metropolis’ by German expressionist artist Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix 1891 – 1969 swipe left to the 3/4th images.. Loved the East

East India Gentlemen’s Club, St James’s Square. Chinese inks and acrylic on bamboo grass paper. Back wall displays portraits of Warren Hastings and ‘Clive of India’ 1st Baron Clive… mostly from online references.. Bufto

Digital mural installed this week at Highgate Primary School, lots of references, photos collages combined together on the iPad Pro, into giant jigsaw pieces 🧩 Timeline from Stone Henge, to modern day Highgate, with multiple imagery in-between, inco

Winter commute, warm coats are back out in force, whiffs of moth balls! Drawn from life on the Northern line .. a small selection of the sketchbooks that I always carry in my backpack, makes travel time go too fast and I get annoyed when people I&rsq

Wishing everyone a fruitful, sweet and peaceful 2024!

Can you spot all (5) Jewish New Year references in the changes from the original painting and panel in situ in SYP MTR station,🍎🍏🍯 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Since posting this, so many dreadful things have happ

With all the Barbie buzz couldn’t resist posting this bas-relief resin sculpture I made in the 1990’s for Mattel’s Hong Kong office. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Part life/cast commission of a 3ft high Barbie doll … East meets West blonde B

Latest collaboration, recently installed in Shanghai, another digital mural/billboard that I probably won’t get to see in person, am relieved it fits & looks good in situ.
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Am very grateful for all the amazing technology enabl

Finally found these sorting through old photos. Rarely do I post photos of myself, but this was another era, my East End London days, youth on my side! I used to hang out with Penny/ Robert who introduced me to the world of drag in the 1980’s I

Really enjoyed working on this commission of Happy Valley, a Hong Kong collaboration from afar….Over the years I’ve now painted many composite street scenes from Wanchai, Aberdeen, ShekO, Sai Ying Pun, Stanley, Shau Ki Wan and Western di

Sadly nearly all the characters I drew during London’s 1980’s Drag scene are no longer alive. Lily Savage being one of the last who died in March this year 2023. I saw some memorable drag shows, dementedly sketching away at live shows pro

She’s back in the news!! #liztruss Forgot I made a quick sketch on an old pizza base from the collection of them during lockdown .. painted the day she stepped down live on the TV. Didn’t even have time to finish it!!

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✏️pencil sketches in situ mostly drawn on the northern line later morphed digitally into one image collaging separate drawings into one image then made into a print .. some of these characters have appeared in earlier posts see if you can find them!!

Loved my stay in NYC thanks @youngsoygallery .. Shiv and @muggatu so enjoyed hanging out with you both! 💫 made me feel young again 🤣 what a fab show!
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loved my regular fuel stations @thehalalguys & @russanddaughters falafels, bagel

New works in progress This is a private commissioned piece, a new direction digitally printed onto acrylic sheet with a light box so the portal is illuminated. The shape inspired by Qing ceramic vase/ portals that reveal landscapes scenes… The

Ballet dancer, Jeff Koons’s 45 foot inflatable ballerina sculpture, NYC 2017 #rockefellercenter. I’ve always had a fascination with inanimate objects imagining them coming to life, she was slightly swaying in the breeze held by ropes. Cou