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 Boiler was a young boy he might lose his temper when repairing punctures on his bike, spanners and spoons and curses would dance in the air while we would watch laughing from the kitchen window . He has since acquired a good measure of patience and is such a cool guy.