Elizabeth Briel, Travel Artist


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H is for Hong Kong

Urban Blues

Cyanotype print of Hong Kong scaffolding on 100% cotton paper, 11 x 14 inches, illustration from H is for Hong Kong (2008) Hong Kong is fragmented by language and geography: Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, English and Cantonese carve up …

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Delectable Travels

Hand tinted Cyanotype Illustration from H is for Hong Kong, 2008 While some of the most interesting people I know are eating their way around the world, I’ve never given food much airtime here. Yet one of the most immediate …

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Lapdog

Lapdog, Original Cyanotype with watercolor on cold press cotton paper, approx. A3 size, 2008 One sunny Sunday afternoon, I strolled the streets of my favorite island in Hong Kong, seeking a dog to photograph for the kids book I was …

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Beautiful Boats

Detail of painting on Thai paper, 70 x 100cm, 2010 This is the image many have of Hong Kong – a junk cruising the waters of one of the finest harbors of the world, sails spread to catch the breeze. But …

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Hong Kong = Kung Fu?

THIS guy is the reason I moved to Hong Kong In the minds of many boys stifled by the post-industrial classrooms of Europe and America, Hong Kong equals just one thing: Kung Fu. And I married one such boy, once …

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