Book Launch Photographs!

My recent book launch – Janice Sylvia Brock: My Life on Canvas was a huge success with over 200 people in attendance, welcomed by Sir Cliff Richard at Sugar Hill Club House, Barbados.  See photographs here.

To purchase the book in the UK click here or in the USA click here (if you would like a signed copy please email me; you can also collect copies from me in Barbados until end of April 2014.)

The artist and I
Janice and I, 23 January 2014

Chinese Fusion

Yang Yongliang, Viridescence, Pages 2, 44 x 44cm, Epson Ultragiclee print on Epson textured fine art paper, 2009
Yang Yongliang, Viridescence, Pages 2, 44 x 44cm, Epson Ultragiclee print on Epson textured fine art paper, 2009

The superb exhibition surveying 12 centuries of Chinese art currently on view at the Victoria & Albert Museum (to 19 Jan), showcases a culture that values continuity, tradition and repetition.  Also evident is the strong history within Chinese art of honouring the artistic achievements of the preceding generation through the deliberate mimicking of previous styles of painting.  The Shanghai-based Yang Yongliang, our BCS featured artist this month, does exactly this but gives a contemporary interpretation to his traditionally-inspired art, utilising new technology and updated imagery.  A fusion of the old with new modalities from the West creates something entirely new in art.  Read full article here:http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/51975