Born 1943
Celebrated collector, dealer and scholar of the Chinese aesthetic and its expression in works of art, the artist has, in recent years, discovered his own voice in ink painting. The discriminating and sophisticated eye he has brought to collecting antiquities, translates into his refined and scholarly ink aesthetic. Like the best literati-painters of Chinese history, his paintings of scholar’s objects and landscapes express his inner reality and personality, rather than seeking to achieve formal likeness or bravado displays of craftsmanship. Filling his every painting with refined ideas and personality, this neo-literatus has even honed his ‘three perfections’ (poetry writing, calligraphy and painting), inking his observations about life, nature and treasured objects as written inscriptions on his paintings, but in English, his native language; the final effect is as much a homage to the Chinese literati tradition, as it is to his own scholarly sensitivities.
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