A portrait will be posted every week (usually Sunday afternoon) on this website home page throughout the year of 2019. Some are of young Chinese learners whom I used to teach in my early years in China, some are of family and friends, others are of artists and curators with whom I have worked over the years in China.

When we were eight years old in Sister Bernadettes class, C had introduced the most wonderful folds and creases for her stories in her scrapbook , soon the whole class adapted these presentations in their own scrapbooks. A decade later as a postgrad in Uni on the other side of the island, I bought the National Sunday Press newspaper to find her column, written in Irish, as C is a Gaeilgeoir. A few years later she became a TV presenter and media celebrity , she introduced “RiverDance” to the world stage with the late Gerry Ryan during the Eurovision song contest . She turned down job offers from various global broadcasters to return to study law and has been a practicing barrister for many years. About ten years ago she came over to sit for me as I needed to sketch her . She brought her son but D was coming down with something and feeling poorly and he joined the sitting. Resting is not something you easily catch C doing but I got lucky .

2019年每个星期我都会在网站首页上放一幅肖像作品。其中一些是我刚到中国时曾经教过的年轻的中国学生(清澈的牛奶系列)，有些是朋友、家人，还有近年来与我一起工作的艺术家和策展人。