BIOGRAPHY

Techniques

Frequent travels require light luggage and a fast eye: a few pens, paints and brushes; pencil and paper, cyan chemicals and sunlight are all I need to make these pictures. Blueprints are an antique form of photography, developed in sunlight rather than in a darkroom. I give them a modern twist by hand-printing them onto silk and other materials.

Recent drawings are inspired by those of commercial Shanghainese painters who dexterously applied both traditional Chinese aesthetics and western ones in a seductive style, and my linework is influenced by the many anonymous ukiyo-e artists of Japan.