In May 2018 I got to travel to Shanghai for ten days. My wife Alice was working with a fashion brand over there, designing some T-Shirts and painting a mural and I was lucky enough to go with her as her ‘assistant.’
I kept a sketchbook with me for the duration of the trip and took photographs too.
I came back to some of these drawings at the back end of last year, working these two drawings from Jing’an Temple into paintings. Its nice returning to these things a while later, it distorts your memory of the place.
A few months after the trip I started looking back and drawing from the photographs I took.
I love this drawing. It was a real springboard for me into my current way of drawing and painting, of breaking spaces down and building them up again through colour and composition.
It lead me onto doing these, completely unrelated to Shanghai in place (they are of that half sea half lido pool in Margate.) It’s nice how everything links together.
This is a lovely post. Gorgeous work
oh the Jing’an Temple paintings are amazing!