Britcham Private View: Chinese Whispers - an Exhibition of new watercolour paintings and ink drawings of China

The British Chamber of Commerce and Picture This Gallery invite you to a private view of Chinese Whispers: an exhibition of paintings and drawings by David Paskett, President of the Royal Watercolour Society.  The artist will be present and will give a guided tour of the exhibition, telling the stories behind some of the works.

David Paskett is one of Britain’s leading watercolourists and in March 2009 in recognition of this he was elected to be President of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS). The RWS is one of the most important art societies and the oldest watercolour society in the world. In his role as P.R.W.S., David has been spending much of his time in China, judging and lecturing at watercolour competitions. He is also advising on The Flow of the Cities, the Beijing/London Watercolour Exchange 2011 in the role of British ambassador for watercolour painting.

David has been travelling and observing China and its people with his keen and empathetic eye since the late 1980s. He lived in Hong Kong from 1986 to 1990 and travelled widely in China during this time. His works are a combination of visual documentary and artistic mastery of a wide range of Chinese scenes and subjects – street life, markets, tea houses, canals and waterways and much beside has come under his careful eye and attentive brush. Inevitably many of his subjects have quietly disappeared in the name of progress and development since he first recorded them in his paintings. David Paskett’s works provide a rich artistic record of the changing social landscape of China - no other painter, Western or Chinese, has produced a comparable body of work of contemporary China.

David Paskett is held in very high regard by his fellow artists in China, and has been described by leading watercolourist and Chairman of the Watercolour Committee of the Chinese Artists’ Association, Huang Tieshan, as “an inspiration to contemporary watercolour painters in China”.

Chinese Whispers opens on Tuesday 2nd November and runs until Saturday 13th November 2010.

Wednesday 3rd November 2010
6.30pm - 8.30pm
Picture This Gallery, Suite 1308, 13th Floor, Office Tower, 9 Queen’s Road, Central, Hong Kong

6.30pm: Drinks
7pm: Guided Tour by David Paskett, the Artist