Travelling notebook

at a hotel lobby in Florence, in Via S. Jacopo- in the nearby area, where I first enquired about the possibility of making an exibition , the first time I came to Florence in 1982 , on a scholarship.
Eighteen years later, it was here that I discovered where the Swiss Artist Stauffer-Bern used to sta...

at Ara Pacis in Rome to see an impressionist exhibition

through one of the windows of Uffizi, to commeroate my first exercise Through the Window at the U of A painting class 1979

sketch from the cafe' -reminicient of the Peak cafe in Hong Kong of the Old days, -in Castelnuovo di Porto, outskirts of Rome

at a restaurant where we first engaged, in Florence
thirty some years later

at a cafe near a newly opened Supermarket
to recall the Supermarket in Hong Kong built before Lee Garden Hotel, and the Supermarket turned Audio-Visual Department in Canada, where I went to school in 1976

Bernini fountain in Rome with tourists of 2015

in a small town near Rome over the weekend

first time sketching SS. Annunziata, where I got married at the Chapel of Painters

the procelain cup without coffee, but tea
to recall the scene of the old Hong Kong film where the same kind of cup was used before a dramactic scene happened: the painter drinks the coffee and dies

at a trattoria in Arezzo, the hometown of Piero della Francesca

Antonio reading news from IPad

baby Jesus with lovely gestures

pastel drawing of my garden to recall my days at Edinburgh College of Art as a visiting student 1980-1981

interior of the Church in Via del Corso in Rome

drew our room in Florence without glasses ( miopia - vision )

studying at the Uffizi to recall my time studying Art History at the U of A
This time no longer from slides

Sacred conversation by Domenico Veneziano used to be one of my favourite paintings
the colors - pale green and pink somehow remain in my mind for years as peaceful kind of tones

chose to study details, gesture of hands, expressive motifs in the form of halo, or even shoes

Madonna and Child , the most successful accomplishments of Italian images at the Uffizi

Drama, spectators, gestures, real story, fiction?

Giotto and the too familiar kind of face

gesture of the Madonna is always as graceful as the Oriental ladies in Chinese Opera

wrote the notes in front of the paintings chosen

shadows, reflections and their problems
when seen through glass

a tabernacle in Piazza Venezia in Rome to recall my own tabernacle experience at the age of three
Baby Jesus, where are you?

at St. Margaret's in Hong Kong
baby Jesus, where are you?
at the age of three

at a cafe in Rome drinking Lung Ching Tea

near Marinella seaside in Rome to recall our house in Shek O

to draw one corner of our snow white space in Florence to recall Hockney's drawings

piazza Spagna with tourists of 2015

Antonio that looks like Antonio
more often than not, Antonio often comes home looking like the drawing I chose of him for uploading my website

the dirty feet skillfully painted by Caravaggio in Piazza del Popolo
you do not have to pay to see this painting

Piazza del Popolo
Rome in 2015

pine trees pines trees
no one understands pine trees than Cezanne

at a cafe with pomegranites, outside Rome, in the countryside

shadows, refections upon glass , visual
problems rediscovered at a cafe with mirror-glass table
what is a reflection?
drawing and note at a cafe' near the cinema where I just watched the film on Steve jobs

Rome and the Pine to recall also Cezanne

tree and the cat with no name in my garden

from my secret garden

with pastels bought in Hong Kong, I went to do drawings on Li River in Guilin 1983-
thirty some years later, the same pastels are with me to witness the growth of my garden on paper

what to choose when you draw?

how to move with the growth of your plant

how not to move with your tree

bamboo westernised a little bit