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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5c21f7a7-fc48-4f56-b0d6-18bd8cc6fabf/SCMP_color.png Media - Make it stand out Online art exhibition captures pandemic scenes in Hong Kong – of loneliness, fear, but also the triumph of the human spirit.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/64e00ae6-a4d7-46f0-9c9e-c388e7fea2c3/IMG_7527.jpg Media - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c975eab2-87ec-495c-a5e6-ac73d44a7ba3/SCMP_color.png Media - Make it stand out Bas-relief at Sai Ying Pun MTR station strikes a chord https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/50f3e512-3623-4aae-b6a9-14e7169f1bc0/ef279545-7459-4b03-91d1-1bb0e74a4946.jpg Media - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/57255b1e-3d6f-46c9-a5ed-62e804aa0338/guardian-logo-square.jpg Media - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.louisesoloway.com/pizza-bases-faces daily 0.75 2024-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/335f6fed-de14-45a0-b6f7-06ae7f471ae7/IMG_1668.JPG Leftover Pizza bases.. paintings Collected pizza bases during lockdown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/9455a077-ae6a-4002-8984-2b74612680f7/IMG_3929.JPG Leftover Pizza bases.. paintings Henry Kissinger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/ba675b06-4f1a-4b25-8210-57e59430f762/IMG_3925.JPG Leftover Pizza bases.. paintings Xi Jinping https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5a750aac-0524-46e8-a3ae-e51f2112f708/IMG_9324.JPG Leftover Pizza bases.. paintings CY Leung https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/edbb19e1-35f8-4665-b08e-e0f823c13108/IMG_9325.JPG Leftover Pizza bases.. paintings John Lee Ka-chiu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c1b115b7-67d6-4de1-b4e4-723f22fc27f4/IMG_6765.JPG Leftover Pizza bases.. paintings Liz Truss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/560a31dd-5726-4d6d-b6e3-dab61af4dbc4/IMG_9322.JPG Leftover Pizza bases.. paintings Boris Johnson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/9ac632d3-558f-4632-ade4-cc23ab8186e6/IMG_1254.jpeg Leftover Pizza bases.. paintings NHS Worker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/10a0b275-117f-4952-9dea-308c817e7f67/IMG_0213.JPG Leftover Pizza bases.. paintings Garlic seller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/ed589de0-8e10-4b20-aaae-583700cf1ef7/IMG_0215.JPG Leftover Pizza bases.. paintings Basting chickens with a brush http://www.louisesoloway.com/mtrcartwork daily 0.75 2022-03-12 http://www.louisesoloway.com/mtrcartwork/new-portfolio-item monthly 0.5 2022-03-09 http://www.louisesoloway.com/mtrcartwork/project-three-nneef monthly 0.5 2022-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/1b54d7dd-3110-4864-8803-1a47d6b2089d/Escalator-resized.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Construction of the escalator, FRP panel, 2.4m x 2.2m Centre street facing south, towards Caine Road. Christmas, represented by gold-covered pots of red poinsettia's, festive decorations and people in winter clothes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/f677e679-26a2-4a66-9694-30ca3f4a3892/Item-2-in-situ-SYP-848x470.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out North, South, East & West. Each panel is a scene from a compass-point perspective inspired by the grid-like roads of Sai Ying Pun: North to the harbour, South up the hilly roads facing the mountains, East towards Central and West towards Western district. Each panel is depicted at a different season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/61f3c245-623a-4955-b01d-c35c6a974fce/5B87F87D-2342-40E3-80EE-BCFEE576191B.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Fruit stall, FRP panel, in acrylics 2.4m x 1. 6m Real fruits - lychees, pineapples, durian - as well as garlic, ginger, walnuts, noodles (and even light bulbs) were cast from life, giving a realistic texture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/264eab91-3056-4eff-a4f3-4a1a49a3ce5b/231B86F8-37A5-44D6-B7D4-C1677B4E8E06.jpeg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Lantern shop, FRP bas-relief panel 2.4m x 2.2m Paper worshipping shop, in the lead-up to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Popular cartoon characters lanterns. Angry Birds were a big craze, as was the film Cars. Placing it in time.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/22553404-0c28-419b-9e78-ffb5ff325933/Tram-Chinese-New-Year-resized.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Lunar New Year, FRP panel, 2.4m x 2.2m Queens Road West, Lunar New Year, symbolised by an auspicious orange tree being wheeled into the scene. 2011, the Year of the Snake, the side of the tram decorated with a golden snake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d591dab5-6f3d-430e-839f-ee6690602bd4/Hair_for_web.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Sophisticuts, FRP bas-relief panel, in acrylics 2.4m x 2.2m Based on a hairdresser located up the steep steps before the escalator was built. The flames are being stoked by the old lady, appeasing hungry ghosts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/fcc26882-090f-4594-ae67-0ca9fd6cc6dc/607FFCE4-D555-40C0-B887-912D90D1CB82.jpeg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Dried seafood panel, FRP panel 2.4m x 2.2m Note the man delivering the large bottles of water, he appears in another panel walking home with his vegetables from the market, see panel with the lady trying on shoes… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/40cb033a-f672-4f68-835b-d8a5334c2a62/Typhoon_resized_for_web.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out After the typhoon, FRP panel, 2.4m x 2.2m Facing east towards IFC. Summer represented by the after-effects of a typhoon, blown out umbrellas and broken trees, as the sun breaks through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/50a65980-afd6-42ca-b1db-fde45e893860/Shoe-shop-resized.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Shoe stall, FRP panel, painted 2.4m x 2.2m Mid-Autumn Festival - a girl, being carried by her grandmother, holds a traditional fish lantern ready for the evening moon festival. As a woman nearby tries on shoes … https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5fe5d21e-10be-4b5e-80a3-dca7faab5fc0/MTREmbossWallAW1.0-01.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out The twelve Bas-Relief panel designs for Sai Ying Pun MTR station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/dadee071-0179-4cba-91ad-f9ee4638b980/Tea_sized_for_web.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Tea shop, FRP bas-relief panel, in acrylics 2.4m x 2.2m Tea shop based on a traditional shop in Queens Road West. The man holding the tea cake is my father, the old man behind is calculating the bill with a wooden abacus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/10edd211-39f9-474f-b2d5-7a175665a4c7/62824F60-E812-4BC5-9A83-218262FF7573.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Car mechanics, FRP panel 2.4m x 1.6m (cropped section) showing the resident dogs keeping one eye open. The mechanic is playing bubble blast and burst game on his iPhone 3 the latest phone the time this panel was made…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/4be02d17-d3b9-4196-a63f-707835b1662a/3176B75C-57E5-4A62-AF82-B3673D550B4D_1_201_a.jpeg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Fish stall, FRP panel in acrylics 2.4 x 1.6m Fishmonger smoking. One of my favourite panels as the little boy is my son watching the crabs blow bubbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/a4c22f71-4d14-4c7f-bbee-ba2415bbe474/Noodles_sized-_for_web.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Bas-Relief Panels - Make it stand out Dai Pai Dong (outdoor eating place) FRP bas-relief panel, in acrylics 2.4m x 2.2m Every panel has a lone foreigner, spot the pink shirt eating under the umbrella. The old lady moves between the two panels, burning paper money during Hungry Ghost Festival. http://www.louisesoloway.com/mtrcartwork/project-two-yr2gt monthly 0.5 2022-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/b3ba1a21-22d7-449d-b9a8-2051e1b81938/FD700836-9A4E-40CB-A7AA-0894934A6D26.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Black & White - Make it stand out Detail section.. People eating, noodles, dim sum and having a meeting with cappuccino. Note the schoolgirl doing her homework and an older gentleman using a magnifying glass to read his newspaper. Acrylic on canvas, study for scaling up see next image.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/a2aa1627-87e2-40d3-9402-8ce7927b4a4c/IMG_4734.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Black & White - Make it stand out ‘Eating around HK’ panel in situ from previous image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/ee02068d-0dd3-4949-8354-f14fe0280314/17BECB87-C1BD-49D2-A436-26DAC1CFC592.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Black & White - Make it stand out Showing a pencil sketch as reference for acrylic painting on canvas (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5ac39576-6e84-4970-b959-a293f5bd9743/206F24AF-D8BC-4978-9875-319B56ED8EA2.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Black & White - Make it stand out Vinyl stickers on VE [Vitreous Enamel] panels, in situ at Sai Ying Pun MTR station by the lifts at exit B1/B2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/f0f3face-d037-41ab-8090-73660c43bdf3/1C28B7F3-13B2-4BDD-A3E3-C2C16EA50BDD_1_201_a.jpeg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Black & White - Make it stand out Acrylic on canvas, study for stickers at MTR station, detail of middle section showing people using public transport and street scenes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/ae308dba-738e-498f-864e-d13633519d9c/2015-03-10+11.28.08.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Black & White - Make it stand out The first installation were the VE panels, before the station was completed and open to the public. This section by the rubbish bins, hence the image of the cleaner with a trolly and the dogs sniffing at the black rubbish bags https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/08170a0a-e8bc-4815-8905-ef90bd6a306a/Rubbish_collection_and_dogs.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Black & White - Make it stand out Rubbish collection, (detail) acrylic on canvas later scaled up for stickers see previous image…. Deliberately located by the rubbish bins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/4ce336f4-772b-48e4-a96f-de10d25796c0/D1CE9C68-FAF8-4F5B-A26A-EC239D156154.jpeg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Black & White - Make it stand out Working on the foliage, study for large panels. Tai Chi in the park, Acrylic on canvas http://www.louisesoloway.com/mtrcartwork/project-one-wm2xt monthly 0.5 2022-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/3509a331-75b2-49ad-892a-fa2061c9ceb2/Cracked_clay_CNY.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Clay & Processes - Make it stand out Dried cracked clay after the mould has been remove. Photo by Adrian Rawle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/339bf4da-0070-49c1-a06b-a69e975b0618/MTR_Work-in-Progress-62-of-142.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Clay & Processes - Make it stand out Josephine Tang and Louise working on the clay panels. Photo by Adrian Rawle. Pressing produce into the clay. The large polystyrene block made a useful working-bench and a nice warm seat in the winter. If you look closely, you can see some Chinese medicine, cordyceps, small red plastic lanterns and a large black fungus mushroom - all ready for casting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/e9d8e1b7-5b4c-42bc-bb5d-c8694b8db9c9/28DAD844-84C3-4220-B59F-A0759F2AA310.jpeg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Clay & Processes - Make it stand out Real noodles used just before making the mould.. though they didn't come out so well https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/982672da-2a8b-473d-84e8-7d201de08872/Louise_and_Dean_working_on_theclay.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Clay & Processes - Make it stand out Louise and Dean working on the clay, street scene panels. See laminated reference image nailed into the clay. Photo by Adrian Rawle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/e348e354-df78-4d8b-9a91-b42b7b198941/Fish_stall-clay-progress3.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Clay & Processes - Make it stand out Clay and actual produce was pressed into the clay just before making the silicone jacket. When the mould is removed the produce is discarded. This poor frog was in a black rubbish bin at the wet market. It had been gutted and had no shape, so had to be stuffed with soft clay. Real objects have been cast in most of the clay panels. Lego pieces, coins, ropes, walnuts, durian, lychees, incense sticks and noodles . . . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/de4cea19-3a18-4bd9-ba22-2772c1bad332/A11CAD48-84D8-4157-A3D3-D208589504E1.jpeg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Clay & Processes - Make it stand out Real light bulbs used just before casting to get a perfectly smooth realistic finish in the final cast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/56b6c935-cb6e-4ddd-9b31-37fec7704d25/White_casts_before_painting.jpg Public Art in Station, MTRC - Clay & Processes - Make it stand out Unpainted, white FRP [Fibreglass Reinforced Plastics] casts freshly out of the moulds ready for priming and painting. Photo by Adrian Rawle http://www.louisesoloway.com/paintings-sculptures daily 0.75 2025-05-04 http://www.louisesoloway.com/paintings-sculptures/drag-1990s-london monthly 0.5 2024-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/05eca07c-dedf-418a-9335-d50ed4a39bc2/IMG_4055.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/f593d611-ac68-449a-b71f-7af2aad768ba/A7204A1F-3FC5-4BFE-AD95-BF56A3926536.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/f8b7bc91-8d1c-43ae-b4c9-17a91b79a3ef/IMG_6836.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/999f7a99-e702-44a9-8cf1-25ce40c994bb/IMG_3682.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/4c664dff-12ef-47c1-82da-5b6a2fcc9d82/Lily+Savage+head.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d1dca66b-ad1a-4ea4-8cd5-da910d243f0a/IMG_7949.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/18905e87-840f-41af-ad52-c4202882db93/IMG_4246.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5217a654-c4d9-4777-bdad-dbb5f22cb313/1A82BDDF-C609-4685-8233-5C6F46CB4ED7.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d1d25f4d-7f60-431e-bdba-e9e6b6f6486a/Image22.jpeg http://www.louisesoloway.com/paintings-sculptures/project-three-dd3sl-p4e8g monthly 0.5 2022-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/e5faa9b2-0ac7-41ac-aded-084092e90df2/Opera.jpg Painting-Sculpture - Acrylic Paintings, Hong Kong - Make it stand out “Opera”. Acrylic on 41 cms circular wooden board 2011 Chinese Opera. The painting above was from a classical concert at Government house pre handover I sat behind the woman with the perfectly groomed hair with the two big combs that were slowly falling out but she didn’t seem to notice. Often I go back to old sketch books & collage together different images to tell a story, the Chinese Opera singer & the two Chinese women near the performer were taken years later but they seemed to work well together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/975cf555-c0c0-4fc8-ba35-b55e5923ff42/Tai+Tai%27s+.jpg Painting-Sculpture - Acrylic Paintings, Hong Kong - Make it stand out “Tai Tai’s”. Acrylic on 41 cms circular wooden board 2011 Tai Tais are a favourite subject of mine, I adore the Tang dynasty figurines of the affluent large women of their day. They have featured in a lot of my images & sculptures, I have tried to make my own modern version. These two ladies if it was real would have been at an art preview. The word “Tai Tai” in Chinese is the word for wife or directly translates into big big or too much… though modern day Tai-Tais are a lot skinnier, the woman on the right is taken from images in HK glossy magazines, the society sections with all the little squares of the glamourous people, one of my greatest sources for reference material! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/f8fe2155-35c8-4882-8570-7849a8f9455a/Mini+bus.jpg Painting-Sculpture - Acrylic Paintings, Hong Kong - Make it stand out “Route 31 minibus”. Acrylic on 41 cms circular wooden board 2011 The mini bus system in Hong Kong is such a quick way of getting around the number 31 is one of my regular routes though I always try to sit near the driver as they dont have a bell so you have to shout out when you want them to stop & I always feel too self conscious hearing my “Gweilo” foreign voice yelling “neeedoo mmgoy” or next stop please! So this painting above is the view from his large rear mirror. The tissue box attached above the driver is the latest tulip design from my local ‘Parkin’ Shop’ store when I made the painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/8a130411-57c9-4c9e-ab6c-e9e884ea303e/IMG_7866.jpeg Painting-Sculpture - Acrylic Paintings, Hong Kong - Make it stand out My Hair Lady, Private commission, note many previous sketch references that have been included. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/2564a28f-e8aa-4a88-9116-519877a4731a/Handover.jpg Painting-Sculpture - Acrylic Paintings, Hong Kong - Make it stand out “Handover Party 1997”. Acrylic on 41 cms circular wooden board 2011 The Handover of Hong Kong in 1997 of British rule back to China was another excuse for parties all over town. Above image is from the then Regent Hotel, where every floor was lavish with food & people dressed in Chinese English outfits. The waiters started the evening in Union Jack jackets that after midnight were reversed into the red & yellow starred Chinese flag. The lady in red with the sparkly dress was in the queue waiting to use the bathroom, I moved her to walk past the leering man smoking a cigar holding two glasses of red wine, behind his trail of cigar smoke is a guy dribbling the juice from his oyster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/36544b49-6aa0-4f3c-9f20-6016465b8b68/Kite.jpeg Painting-Sculpture - Acrylic Paintings, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Lantern Stall, 12 Acrylic paintings were made for the MTR bas reliefs, each panel had a highly detailed painting which was later used as reference to turn into 3D clay reliefs…. see MTRC section https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d2c394e7-2a74-4dcb-b58f-52c4a18d10c3/IMG_1338.jpeg Painting-Sculpture - Acrylic Paintings, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Stanley Market, Flower stall by the Banyan tree, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/74c7958d-7ff4-4633-bf29-cf688b198fa5/IMG_0119.jpeg Painting-Sculpture - Acrylic Paintings, Hong Kong - Make it stand out A mischievous Client who commissioned this piece, Golden Shower, Char Sui restaurant http://www.louisesoloway.com/paintings-sculptures/project-one-zdyzx monthly 0.5 2022-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c7a0294f-bcda-47c9-8fbf-c160e1c3a157/84FC7E3D-5957-484A-A3C9-A6C2E3510287.jpeg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Self portrait with; "lonely planet travel survival kit, India" 1984. self portrait sculpture made in Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts, the photo was taken standing out side the front entrance, where I was a student in 1982-1984. This is the only student work included in this website, but in many ways it tells the story of where my work went from there. As I have continued to travel & watch the world, seeking adventures & trying to understand different cultures, often the traveller, voyeur which this small piece was about all those years ago & the start of making painted sculptures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/4a7344e5-08d0-40b3-8255-6945ac42e54a/IMGP0034.JPG Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/b3aa8fee-0b3e-4a88-b7a9-8a0830185754/F2C24BC8-E360-4375-A7DF-C41866A23437.jpeg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Clay sculpted Tai Tai head. (Above) The slightly disapproving mouth is an actual life cast of someone’s mouth. The rest has been sculpted and exaggerated around the lips which were the starting point for this piece, the heads are slightly larger than life size. The clay hair was combed with a fine comb to get the texture & lines with the red hair comb pressed into the clay & cast during the mould making process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/452d58cb-7192-49c5-ac9d-033e526e505f/IMG_0883.JPG Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Hedonistic pre handover days, life casts plaster & fibreglass, in acrylics. 1996 When I first arrived in Hong Kong I lived and worked in a small flat in the heart of Wanchai. This torso shows a scene from a popular westerners hang out in the area, Joe Bananas, ladies night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5b6d6369-bb85-4d4c-9914-3ec1a78bb96f/Magpie.jpg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c4782f9c-a1d5-45c8-af7e-cd25139a7400/2260A6F0-2CD3-46A5-9035-D98B27EA1B82.jpeg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Tai Tai’s, plaster and fibreglass painted in acrylic (Above) These Tang ladies are a modern version of the ceramic Tang Dynasty figurines of their day or affluent Tai Tai’s. The word Tai Tai directly translates as Big Big, too much or a certain type of affluent wife. Though Tai Tai’s today tend to be a lot skinnier, these ladies are both wearing low cut typical silk Chinese style patterned outfits. The traditional terracotta figurines are often sculpted holding their dogs, which I have replaced with handbags & glasses of wine socialising at private views or functions around town. (See the HK painting section.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/08ad07da-d89b-4de8-b378-ed90223adaab/Red+Bust.jpg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Hedonistic pre handover days, life casts plaster & fibreglass, painted in acrylics. 1996 Before the handover there was a regular influx of American naval ships visiting HK and Wanchai would buzz with life at night. The above torso is a scene from inside the hostess bar Country 88, reflected back onto the torso; the mamasan keeping an eye over her patrons, girls pole-dancing, sailors & lecherous male faces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c24c7452-0680-49f0-8b17-ad01f1a2da28/4.Sophie+Torso.jpg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Life cast Torso. Plaster & fibreglass painted in acrylic, 1997 A wedding gift for her fiancee, a cast of her torso, made whilst wearing a bra the details can be seen in the finished cast. Turned into a blue & white ming style bodice. The chest is painted with fragmented scenes from the couples courting days in Hong Kong including the location of their first kiss in “the big Apple in Wanchai,” the neon red apple logo on the left side of her chest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/34a73124-0ec2-4c30-8507-a4953cdfdcdd/10.Dragons+black+bgd.jpg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/dafe4680-b8bd-4ca2-a407-b36dd2062dac/8.Shinobu.jpg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/6393658e-1b52-48be-bc11-fce4bc9145d2/9.jpeg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d9af3722-835b-4969-ac83-f7579a1eea86/6.jpeg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/ac97acc3-0809-41e2-b587-e782377e35d7/15.jpeg Painting-Sculpture - Sculptures - Make it stand out Yellow Torso, hands on hips. Life cast of a woman with hands on her hips, to help her balance as she didn’t like the process of being cast. commissioned as a memory of their courting days. A small bumble bee traces their travels across a painted globe. The bodice is decorated in a Qing dynasty style, with two long thin dragons that form the neckline. Whilst making this the woman went very pale & fainted apparently it was whilst applying the bandages near her neck. Her husband thinking she would never let me cast her again, stopped me from ripping off the mould, so we slowly lowered her to the floor to save the mould, luckily she & the mould were fine. http://www.louisesoloway.com/basreliefs daily 0.75 2022-03-14 http://www.louisesoloway.com/basreliefs/project-two-bgl6g monthly 0.5 2022-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/05eca07c-dedf-418a-9335-d50ed4a39bc2/IMG_4055.jpeg Bas-Reliefs - 1980's London - Make it stand out Glitz/ Gary Lipsincing “My Old Man” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/1d0e1ff5-0935-4a71-9c03-3229e167f332/9543F78B-B487-4ED3-8211-6D7DEE791C5E.jpeg Bas-Reliefs - 1980's London - Make it stand out Above left, Ambrose's boudoir, Kentish Town. Above right, Glitz at the Vauxhall Tavern 1989, fibreglass reliefs in oils 178 x 153cms Ambrose in his boudoir. By day a male model: his modelling card can be seen on his dressing-room table, in front of the oval mirror with my reflection in it. He turned heads, both as a man and as a woman. The bas-relief (right) is a scene from the Vauxhall Tavern at amateur drag night with Glitz - or Gary - in his full regalia, in sequins and feathers lip-syncing; 'My old man'... while Lily Savage, the compere, sits reading 'her' newspaper and ignoring the acts. During the late 1980s, I became friends with a transvestite called Penny/Robert who introduced me to many places and people that inspired a series of work about drag queens. Sadly, many of these people are no longer alive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/41f3b5cb-045f-4a82-8d20-45cfc74e74a7/IMG_2829.JPG Bas-Reliefs - 1980's London - Make it stand out Ambrose getting ready for a beauty pageant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/84cbf94c-6b77-4223-8e30-df24f207a430/All+nations+on+white.jpg Bas-Reliefs - 1980's London - Make it stand out All Nations Night Club, Hackney.1989 Fibreglass relief painted in oils 41 x 66cms A scene from a West Indian night club in Hackney, I went there a few times to the surprise of my students from Hackney College where I was teaching at the time. I tried to stay as invisible as possible so I could sketch & get enough images to create this image, drawing in night clubs is fairly easy as there are always tables tucked away in a dark corner somewhere. Living in the East End it seemed there were endless pockets of very different worlds behind closed doors. This relief was bought by the Homerton Hospital in Hackney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/41abca6e-aebd-4c8e-a091-b8c06ebaebd8/Spitalfields+fruit+%26+vegetable+market+on+white.jpg Bas-Reliefs - 1980's London - Make it stand out Spitalfields fruit & vegetable market 1990, Fibreglass relief painted in oils 155 x 109cms The last days of the market in Spitalfields before it relocated to Leyton. The City & Broadgate were rapidly being developed & seemed to tower over the market. Two homeless guys are sitting on discarded wooden crates having a beer & chatting to a trader whilst a guy in the foreground helps himself to a cabbage. My studio was very close to the market & the life in the area was a great subject to work from. This was exhibited in the Whitechapel gallery which led to the series of reliefs on City trading floors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/150591ef-a701-4097-be69-a9170c3c3ccb/953B0982-6D4F-4F8E-B660-C68AB039524E.jpeg Bas-Reliefs - 1980's London - Make it stand out Self Portrait with salmon & cream cheese bagel, 1991. Self portrait in leather jacket & lace-up boots, a fairly typical look in the late 1980s, siting in the wooden-panelled kitchen of a Georgian house in Spitalfields where I lived at the time. It had a non-stop dripping tap over a big butler sink, and no heating apart from the Calor gas-heater on wheels. I'm drinking coffee from a Hackney Empire mug (you can just make out the 'E' of Empire) & have taken a bite out of a smoked-salmon & cream cheese bagel, from Brick Lane Bagel bakery. The inspiration was from a portrait by the Dutch artist Jan Steen of a girl eating an oyster. I've always liked the mischief in his characters' expressions. This relief was exhibited in the Royal Portrait Gallery's BP show in 1991 & now keeps my parents company in their home. http://www.louisesoloway.com/basreliefs/project-two-bgl6g-z9d4c monthly 0.5 2022-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/f0caf3f2-b399-4be9-8c45-837edc0bcca3/IMG_0230.JPG Bas-Reliefs - Small Reliefs - Make it stand out Angry Bird, cropped section of the lantern Stall see MTRC Reliefs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/4b4ad6a2-b4b2-470a-a67e-950da875945a/IMG_1865.JPG Bas-Reliefs - Small Reliefs - Make it stand out Three women from pencil sketch reference, modelled in’ Pebeo Gedeo Air Drying’ red clay 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/2b56fc92-e1eb-4a86-b8ea-d02dcf7a4c68/0D53BE40-9E4D-468F-8733-38115A712E54_1_105_c.jpeg Bas-Reliefs - Small Reliefs - Make it stand out Clipper ‘96 Round the world race boats sailing into Hong Kong . Bronze cold cure resin 1996 I was on board from Hawaii to Hong Kong. I have a passion for sailing and most of my mould making techniques I learnt from boat builders…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/b1163590-c744-409c-963d-b75e4ad75b1c/IMG_1962.jpeg Bas-Reliefs - Small Reliefs - Make it stand out Sai, with basket ball and Michael Jordan T-shirt, resin relief painted in oils 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/6df874be-2491-403b-90ee-55807aafda8f/IMG_5054.jpg Bas-Reliefs - Small Reliefs - Make it stand out Gaming computer arcade Piccadilly London 1993 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/0cc47e0f-181c-4d6c-9e80-92a39e810ba5/Asleep+on+the+Central+Line+bronze+and+painted.jpg Bas-Reliefs - Small Reliefs - Make it stand out Nodding off on the Central Line, pre mobile phones and when the Central Line had those fuzzy yellow and black seats. 1993 Two versions, one cold cure bronze and one painted in oils. Museum of Transport Collection http://www.louisesoloway.com/basreliefs/project-one-r83d2 monthly 0.5 2022-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d526a970-294e-4f7b-be53-c6da4950688b/85A7AACF-411B-4994-9E7C-5D24ECC47443.jpeg Bas-Reliefs - Unpainted Bas-Reliefs - Make it stand out Above left, clay detail of the ringside crowd. Above right, Daniel Mendoza, bas-relief, bronze resin cold cure 81cms x 59cms, Bas-relief plaque, commissioned by the Jewish East End Society to commemorate Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836) the father of scientific boxing or the 'hopping on your toes' style of boxing. The image of the crowd in hats is taken from an aquatint 1790 by James Gilray & the actual image of Mendoza from a print by Charles Jean Robineau 1789. The plaque was unveiled by Sir Henry Cooper in 2008, it is now displayed on the library wall of Queen Mary's College, Mile End London near where Daniel Mendoza was buried in the Nuovo Sephardi cemetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/fb552888-6de5-419b-8cca-600e5d847217/E9B622A7-7DCA-457B-9F34-2BA6CF0E77FB.jpeg Bas-Reliefs - Unpainted Bas-Reliefs - Make it stand out MACE construction team for Royal Bank of Scotland, the completed clay relief. I had a desk in this office so spent a lot of time photographing & sketching the people. Images of people at work, at their desks, the way they made calls, used their computers to help capture the atmosphere of a typical day in the office. As there are over 60 characters it appears a fairly squashed office, the desks & chairs have been used as a way of dividing the space. For finished painted version see 'Construction Projects' in this website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/ba852a06-0bbc-4551-a014-dd460a58db0f/021.jpg Bas-Reliefs - Unpainted Bas-Reliefs - Make it stand out Royal Bank Of Scotland Clay detail in progress, directors in a meeting, standing looking at the architects plans for the new headquarters 2000-2001 The man with his arms crossed is Sir Fred Goodwin much talked about in the media since. Worked from photos that I took in one of the many Mace site meetings, each head about the size of a golf ball. See completed piece in Construction commissions section of this website https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/7fd3889a-e83d-4994-adfa-06dba0c94ce5/B8AEA5E9-554F-4CD2-92A1-B3DE820E4140.jpeg Bas-Reliefs - Unpainted Bas-Reliefs - Make it stand out Detail of two clay panels for Sai Ying Pun MTR station, (left) noodle shop, (right) lantern shop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/9f9d9919-ffe2-4964-882f-3399de116ae4/29049431-1F97-41AE-A994-26042EF6C290.jpeg Bas-Reliefs - Unpainted Bas-Reliefs - Make it stand out Sir Henry Cooper unveiled this sculpture in 2008 http://www.louisesoloway.com/commissions-1 daily 0.75 2025-02-24 http://www.louisesoloway.com/commissions-1/project-four-632la monthly 0.5 2022-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5ef80beb-e764-4e93-a8f9-a732bcddaabe/UBS+on+white.jpg Commissions - Corporate - Make it stand out “Traders at UBS Phillips and Drew” London 1992 Fibreglass relief painted in oils 126 x 96.5cm Trading floor at UBS in Broadgate, London. I had a small desk on the trading floor & got to learn of various office shenanigans that was suggested I include in discreet ways. Not sure the people involved ever noticed, so if they should ever stumble on this website they might find out. There was a woman having an affair with one of her colleagues who can be seen sitting next to her, on her computer screen is a small yellow sticker saying her husband called. There are lots of other incidents which I will leave for you to find out or imagine. I’m wandering at the back of the room, top left with sketch book in hand wearing a grey jumper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/3fe122ae-68ef-4b47-8e91-a64d3adf3deb/2.LIFFE+on+white+.jpg Commissions - Corporate - Make it stand out “LIFFE” London International Financial Futures Exchange 1991, relief painted in oils 109 x 90cms ‘LIFFE’, London Financial Futures Exchange. Two versions of the same image were made… Bronze resin version, (right) fibre glass & resin painted in oils. Photographs weren’t permitted on the trading floor. I was given an orange jacket to wander with a sketch book to capture the scene, as “a runner”, the back of my head can be spotted with a plaid, far right side. Rapid hand signals & sign communication happened as the numbers on the overhead sign boards changed. The sketches were used as reference to compose the relief image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/e37c02e6-b630-415f-8690-499d685b652c/Salamon+Brothers+HK+on+white.jpg Commissions - Corporate - Make it stand out “Traders, Salamon Brothers” HK 1995, painted in oils 130 x 95cms. The first commission I received in Hong Kong, during the time I had my first exhibition. I was told to look as business like as possible, to be able to spend time on the trading floor taking photographs & blending with the environment. The office had great views over Kowloon seen through the large windows. The relief was made in London as at that time I was not yet living in HK, pre digital cameras & internet, many images had to be sent by post. The box like computers & telephone wires now look very dated. Apparently it ended up in the World Trade Centre so maybe it is no more… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/578c1f2b-c2d3-467a-9e6d-f74c6fa9636d/Smith+Kline+Beecham+Laboratory+on+white.jpg Commissions - Corporate - Make it stand out SmithKline Beecham pharmaceutical laboratory 1995. Fibreglass relief painted in oils 183 x 92cms I was given access to wander around the laboratory in protective gear, similar to the woman covering her shoes next to the white rubber boots (lower middle). A machine like a washing machine coated pills with sugary coverings, the pills later inspected on a conveyor belt (lower right). Several years later I was commissioned to record the building of GSK new headquarters when SmithKline merged with Glaxo see ‘Construction projects’ in this website http://www.louisesoloway.com/commissions-1/project-four-632la-3xk9j monthly 0.5 2024-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/57149ac6-5655-4766-bf39-fa396d3be681/IMG_9190.jpeg Commissions - Private commissions - Make it stand out Private commission. Shows work in progress using two clays, darker clay for finer details. Wet towels to keep the clay from drying and cracking, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c14d437b-7136-44ae-ac6d-3421462b16b6/Andy%27s+commission.jpg Commissions - Private commissions - Make it stand out Private commission, Painted cast, narrating a family story and key moments of their lives 132cms x 114cms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/14f4e8a7-7bd3-4328-9771-bb490d9663ff/Oxford+House+on+white+.jpg Commissions - Private commissions - Make it stand out Oxford House Community Centre, In the shape of the building, peeled back like a dolls house revealing activities inside, Somali Kitchen, bingo group, London cabbies doing the knowledge studying a giant A-Z seen above their mopeds parked outside with clipboards showing London routes. The lady in pink was a bit upset she thought I’d made her look too fat… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/52931c78-bb19-472e-942d-c8ff0c718242/IMG_9571.jpeg Commissions - Private commissions - Make it stand out This shows the resin mould after casting and pre painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/df4275f3-409d-46bb-91d9-5b2be56fc4ec/Joel+and+Son.jpg Commissions - Private commissions - Make it stand out Joel and Son Fabrics. Showing the main characters in the family business https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/0ab5a5d9-2058-4029-b4f8-a9040f543713/IMG_0051.jpg Commissions - Private commissions - Make it stand out This is a private commissioned piece, a new direction digitally printed onto acrylic sheet with a light box so the portal is illuminated. The shape inspired by Qing ceramic vase/ portals that reveal landscapes scenes….. The scenes show the transition or exodus for so many people from Hong Kong relocated to U.K. East to West with fragments of personal stories. Expat life in Asia, with contrasting background of, black tie champagne events, riot police, art fairs, protests, lion dance, Sampan's, taxis, bridges, skyscapes. London, Essex seagulls, burger van, buses, tube travel during the pandemic... like my brain a big cacophony of stuff … http://www.louisesoloway.com/commissions-1/project-three-53xdp monthly 0.5 2022-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/b014d3ea-055a-4654-a964-ea43fa05ea82/70658111-E607-4D12-AE0E-832756A1805A.jpeg Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out Building of Chek lap Kok Airport, HK, 1994-5 bas-relief in oils 183 x 123cms relief that records life on site during the building of Hong Kong’s Airport platform. I had a studio in one of the workers cabins & spent over a year based on site. The sand coloured map is the completed shape of the platform. Specialist Dutch Dredging ships sucked sand & mud from the seabed to build the platform (top centre). Local ferries transported people to work (right). Divers helped build the sea walls & place concrete blocks at the waters edge. Derrick lighters & dumper trucks shifted rocks (lower left). Specialist construction teams became part of a multicultural work force that thrived in Hong Kong during that period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/ce905210-f9e1-4eb6-b6ef-1487f0987d49/F1220011.JPG Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out Detail, Construction workers arriving and leaving the site 1996 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/f6d068f4-72f2-4d9a-93e5-66f3f9e4550e/CIMG1840.jpg Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out (Detail) of Dredger ship, part of Chek Lap Kok Mural https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/e945498d-6515-4d97-8ef8-35a2a0170427/Relief+samples.jpg Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out Main entrance, Gogarburn. Bas-relief 96x66cms painted in oils Relief Shows the main workers entrance to the new RBS construction site, with the canteen lower right of the image, with the big blue umbrellas. This was part of a series of 8 small panels that told the story of the construction processes, from excavation to part completion. 2004-5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/b982a93c-a944-49ad-9a61-ed059536ea20/P1010063.jpg Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters in Edinburgh, similar to relief ‘31 Months at GSK ‘ above, The white architects plan in the centre of the relief was modelled in low relief as the starting point for the composition, then the relief was built up higher around its edges recording construction processes & activities that happened in those locations on the map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/dc715c5c-2925-473c-9149-3fe5f8f16a6a/P7050075.jpg Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out Installing Glass roof, Gogarburn. Glass panels lifted on tall cranes by a machine with rubber suction heads attached to the glass & lowered into position. Edinburgh overcast skies made a great contrast against the brightly coloured workers jackets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/a59c6a42-e880-492d-b9bb-6b6ad045ada6/CLK+in+situ.jpg Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out On display in situ at Chek Lap Kok airport, it has since moved to a private office https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c8b0ade3-baf0-459a-8993-59917cfac0f1/RBS+office.jpg Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out R.B.S. New Headquarters Edinburgh, offices for MACE. Fibreglass relief painted in oils 96 x 66cms Office scene of the construction team. Designing the composition & fitting in all the people is always a huge challenge & usually involves office politics. I have a tendency, not deliberate, to make the least important people appear high profile, as they often tend to be the most colourful. Whenever possible I try to spend as much time in the actual environment, as its the small details that make the images come alive, the way people sit at their computers & interact, all help in putting together the final composition. The most difficult commissions are to work from publicity shots of people staring directly at the camera smiling with no background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/74f2307a-ae64-4ec9-a96d-38f8cc811c90/CIMG1916.jpg Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out Gwadar Deep water port. Bas-Relief 2009/10 resin painted in oils 5ft x 4ft Commissioned by a Chinese engineering company involved in the building of Chek Lap Kok Airport. They commissioned a similar relief to display alongside the CLK relief which already was in heir head office in Beijing. To commemorate the building of a deep water port in Gwadar. Unlike many of the previous construction projects I’ve had a studio based on site, this project was already complete, so together with directors who’d been based in Pakistan we spent hours going through images that summed up the feel of life on site. A giant jigsaw of images were worked up into rough sketches to create the final composition for the relief. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/b5052e54-46cd-40b1-8109-81377301a1bb/IMG_0529.JPG Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out In Beijing offices CHEC China Harbour Engineers headquarters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/4451824e-2b41-4302-bc98-1227cfd7a34d/029.jpg Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out 31 months at Boston Manor, The building of GSK new headquarters 2000-2001 Bas-relief 224cms x 130cms records the building of GSK new headquarters in London. For a year I had a small pre fab unit/studio in the middle of the construction site. All of the characters are based on real people I met. The white architects plan in the centre of the relief was modelled in low relief as the starting point for the composition, then the relief was built up higher around its edges recording construction processes & activities that happened in those locations on the map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/6b51dd95-c9b6-4c6a-9c7c-e9239532c941/CIMG1868.JPG Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out Caricature portraits of directors in a meeting ( detail) close up section of the central scene in the Gwadar previous relief showing a meeting along a large table that forms the central part of the relief. These are three Chinese guys in a meeting, worked from the many reference photos I was given. My early days of modelling glasses I used to make them solid & paint the eyes on afterwards, now I carve out the eyes inside which works far better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/6c6e57a3-e55a-48ba-8768-c4fcf4cd9b56/Detail+bronze+1.jpg Commissions - Construction projects - Make it stand out Excavation. Fibreglass relief in oils 96 x 66cms, 2005 First of a series of 8 smaller reliefs recording various stages as RBS headquarters was being built. Construction a great subject for Bas-relief & working in clay seems appropriate, areas are cast with actual rock & mud from the site. http://www.louisesoloway.com/commissions-1/project-one-8mtk5 monthly 0.5 2024-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5d8e8d23-93b0-4e65-9dfd-cd671b8338af/aberdeen+with+red+fish.jpg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Aberdeen Digital mural , from an acrylic painting on canvas, reworked digitally on an iPad. As a newspaper they liked the idea of using only three colours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d49ed401-ba8a-43bf-821b-6d1cb407e6ea/af63d80f-c6a4-4c7c-b001-23ab51829361.jpg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Aberdeen, mural in SCMP South China Morning Post Headquarters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d897fe9b-64dd-4fd6-a1e5-f87328feeefc/IMG_4190.JPG Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Dragon billboard featuring the latest asics trainer design.. fab new shoes with part of the dragon on the soles , spikey shards and scales swishing by. Recently installed in Shanghai Qiantan district, replacing the summer version below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/784dfc08-8510-4077-a618-bc2a88ca80df/image0.jpg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Digitally printed mural, Highgate Primary School, giant jigsaw pieces timeline from Stone Henge, to modern day life. Incorporated into the design are many well known paintings, from. Leonardo, Hokusai, Bridget Riley, Homer Windsor, Henri Rousseau and Magritte to name few… installed November 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/6ec6e111-914c-484c-8ed8-fa22f8015c3c/ullman+%C6%92oyer.jpg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/17031963-faba-438a-a02d-d44d226b17af/e3c8b326-b622-4400-9564-5317f43da6e3.jpg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Mural in Law firm Ropes and Gray canteen, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/e4129fe1-f2a6-4d6b-9914-6ea7370577bd/Asics.jpeg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Digital mural/ billboard in situ, Installed Shanghai summer 2023 Qiantan Plaza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/6dcd7e16-61bd-4ea6-a9b4-90d2c38aaa5b/IMG_1564.JPG Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Canteen mural for a Law Firm, (who prefer to stay anonymous) incorporating many of the partners all woven into a scene around IFC Central Hong Kong 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/387b018b-062d-4035-8d2b-2faaabd4a04e/tempImageHZHA5Y.jpg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out 'Apple orchard', inspired by children's paintings and sculptures of birds, insects, butterflies, bugs and flowers placed amongst the Chinese style blossoms. Throughout are fragments of famous paintings that feature mainly apples. David Hockney iPad treehouse no.125, Cezzanne still life with apples, Picasso jug with plate of apples, Arcimboldo head of fruits and vegetables, Matisse yellow table, Magritte man with bowler hat and apple face, Lucien Freud crate of apples, Lucas Cranach apple tree, Adam and Eve have been replaced with two Newton prep children with a Monet basket of apples by their feet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/bb50bc4e-6af4-4cce-b2f3-c4d75d584525/Ropes+and+Gray+crop.jpg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/cce5c274-9645-475b-a139-d35a97a74489/Affordable+Art+Fair+mural.jpg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c877019d-5799-4ec4-acc3-0bd92a08e7ae/image1.jpeg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/38c1b2b5-d8ee-4bbc-a439-6ec2a6527472/IMG_7066.JPG Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Waiting at the Taxi Rank, HK Chinese ink painting re-worked digitally for large scale mural installation 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/06c37cd0-a16b-4bc9-b7bd-e6a9d8f7f299/ASICS+Jpeg.jpg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Commissioned mural/banner for Shanghai Qiantan Plaza 2023 featuring summer sports and ASICS running shoes. Colour swatch, left shows the requested colours for larger areas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/f7d44033-e8e2-47a0-bd93-50df5ccceb22/IMG_7027.jpeg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Part of Solo Exhibition “In Transit” Digital enlarged ink painting in the foyer of Park Lane Hotel Hong Kong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/2bdfcea3-72bd-44eb-bb9b-009d7553293e/IMG_9495.jpeg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Mural, Detail from digital file 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/aa371350-f112-4b13-9183-f61b0efb1232/a05e5e62-1762-486f-b0f3-fde6551061ba.jpg Commissions - Digital murals - Make it stand out Large digital mural at the entrance to the affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2020, organised by Young Soy Gallery http://www.louisesoloway.com/pencil-ink-watercolour daily 0.75 2024-07-29 http://www.louisesoloway.com/pencil-ink-watercolour/project-two-mn76b monthly 0.5 2024-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/b842e288-86c2-4fd2-acb1-365bd7d749d6/4546C843-BB23-408C-8CB8-271E86DB7104_1_201_a.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Fish Market, some of the organs were still pumping blood, this woman was choosing fish heads maybe for fish head soup.. or my favourite fish lip soup (joking, but do love the name) 2017 Chinese inks and acrylics on rice paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/431cc2b9-51c2-4a74-b71a-9535864f19aa/Chinnery+Bar.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong Chinnery Room, Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong… note the George Chinnery self portrait by the bar, a British painter who lived and worked in Asia 1774-1852.. artistic Liscence as the portrait wasn’t really there! Chinese Ink on rice paper 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/1ae34694-2fbe-4a1f-a777-45d99deb8c0c/Pork+chop.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Pork Chop, a moment hard to un-see in Ap Lei Chau wet market 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/db0fa001-ec46-432a-98d2-2d3d55120bb6/IMG_5693.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Chefs cigarette break, Chinese inks on rice paper. 2016 This is in Soho House Collection (HK) in the blue room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/2314879e-268c-4e93-9796-5068ea2e1603/IMG_3177.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Vernissage, These women looked like they’d stepped straight out of a Luis Chan painting behind them, private view Hanart Gallery 2017 Art Basel. Ink and acrylic on rice paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/044fe15a-f886-416c-8fb5-608d1c0830ce/IMG_3179.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Red Wine tasting maybe Pinot, Burgandy, Bordeaux or maybe Merlot can’t remember but a great scene to animate… see animate section. Ink on rice paper 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/cf58c180-20ff-45dd-bfb2-1444897d0592/IMG_0429.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Fishmonger in white wellies having a quick cigarette, fish hearts are still pumping. Butcher with hooked tongues and trotters dripping into the bucket. 2016, mixed media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/061c602c-1e42-40ee-bec8-b95ee240348c/6E373CC9-4267-4D72-80D3-BBBDADA5CE4B_1_201_a.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Chef’s table Wellington Street, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/6a53b6df-9bd8-422e-b8a8-289c531654c3/IMG_0644.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Protests, Wanchai 2019, in the heart of the demonstrations. I spent some time photographing and drawing at the protests. Masks then worn for protection against tear gas which seems now a strange precursor to masked faces everywhere the following year of the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/65328763-70bf-4065-bacd-c0842423c0ed/IMG_1261.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Cut throat shave , at a hole in the wall barber, Sai Ying Pun, this guy appears tiny in the construction bas-relief if you can find him.. 42 x 46cms 2017 mixed media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c9975b3e-1a7c-4ec6-855d-7dfdf8ac9d9a/IMG_0646.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Panic Shopping start of the pandemic January 2020 Chinese New Year lanterns still hanging in the streets. The start of panic shopping for toilet rolls. Note Carrie Lam (right) wearing a mask seen for the first time, seemingly soon after the anti mask law for protesters was implemented October 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/6db577b0-df95-4c65-9df9-38f5543b60a2/Art+Instagram+sized.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Inks on rice paper, Hong Kong - Make it stand out Private views, women with champagne and mobile phone. This ink is in Soho House in the Blue room part of their HK collection. (right) Christies lounge with a grinning Murakami inflatable 2011 http://www.louisesoloway.com/pencil-ink-watercolour/project-two-mn76b-d3gld-c8m8w monthly 0.5 2022-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/a7a9e712-09be-47a7-9e7e-a42928478bf6/IMG_0623.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out Zoom life drawing with @life_drawing_plus Chinese ink on rice paper, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/0ecc7c99-b211-4662-b94d-4696a8115ba7/IMG_4436.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out Zoom life drawing with @life_drawing_plus a session a model I love painting @kiwiwthebuffetslayer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/07798937-3041-400b-a9db-34568dd5d5be/IMG_1489.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out Zoom life drawing with @life_drawing_plus and fantastic model @avocado_allie 2 minute, 5 minute and 10 minute poses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5c4a2169-f926-4049-ae10-9c6d16580c8f/IMG_4432.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out A wonderful life drawing session with @dropdeadgorgeous_drawing and one of my favourite models @vicktecker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/eef007e6-3853-447f-b070-485013ef75c1/IMG_4433.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out A wonderful life drawing session with @dropdeadgorgeous_drawing and one of my favourite models @vicktecker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/329961b9-21a4-4f16-8e46-b1b7ba08b34b/IMG_1479.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/62b4d59e-3d3d-49bf-b278-46418c5a7009/IMG_1874.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out Zoom life drawing with @life_drawing_plus and fantastic model @avocado_allie 2 minute, 5 minute and 10 minute poses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/858acd8b-8f33-41fd-8572-3320f47ae608/IMG_1873.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out Zoom life drawing with @life_drawing_plus and fantastic model @avocado_allie 2 minute, 5 minute and 10 minute poses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/046e12ba-b672-4512-9fcc-245f199c3d45/IMG_0624.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out Zoom life drawing with @life_drawing_plus a session with models @the.ugly.black.woman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/ef358d03-d02c-488a-b9ab-e776c860bbd6/IMG_4431.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/42ff4f52-82bf-4d6e-8829-3fe2c26b4b20/IMG_1878.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Zoom Life Drawings - Make it stand out Zoom life drawing with @life_drawing_plus and fantastic model @avocado_allie 2 minute, 5 minute and 10 minute poses http://www.louisesoloway.com/pencil-ink-watercolour/project-two-mn76b-rctzh monthly 0.5 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d6085787-d6af-429f-bb94-38c30f66a9ed/F1120002.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Watercolours mixed selection - Make it stand out Welder repairing the giant Excavator As I had a studio in a portacabin and would often stay overnight, sometimes I would go and sketch in the workshops. The wheels of these trucks were over 6foot high https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/8415bead-9ee7-47c5-8aa6-f28d10aaad58/F1120008.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Watercolours mixed selection Welder smoking inside the Impalla dredger head, watercolours & pencils 15 x 18cms 1994-95 One of a series of watercolours made during the construction of Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong’s new airport. Painted on site in the Marine workshop, Above is a large dredger head used to suck up sand & mud from the sea bed as part of the reclamation process, it constantly needed repairs from being ground down by debris & sand. It was a great subject to sketch, with orange clad welders sparking up their welding rods inside rusty sea worn structures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/4f1bf283-92d7-4022-b1a7-ef50eb5f3a25/Market+Cafe+breakfast.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Watercolours mixed selection - Make it stand out Market Cafe, eating a full English breakfast, A6 paper. A popular cafe next to Spitalfields church.. It had an open kitchen where you could go & choose the cuts from the roasting tray straight out of the oven. I lived & worked at the time in the area.1990…. note the old fashioned till, milk bottle and ketchup tomato shaped dispenser.. retro now but commonplace then. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/516ae0d5-2517-4514-927c-d7d5d48bffe5/Dead+cutter+heads.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Watercolours mixed selection - Make it stand out ‘Dead Cutter Heads” led me to the commission to record the building of Hong Kong’s new airport in 1995 As I was out sketching these discarded parts of Dredger ships these had once bore into the seabed to create the platform for the airport. These along with other sketches caught the attention of a director who asked if I would be interested to record more processes…. and so as I said in my intro… if you keep a diary one day it will keep you…… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/98a2a556-4010-439f-818b-833846e106ba/Ohel+Leah+pastelles.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Watercolours mixed selection - Make it stand out Ohel Leah Synagogue, Hong Kong, part of a series of postcards commissioned by the Jewish Historical Society. 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5a9df786-294e-497c-8dde-7de1e84b4faa/IMG_1677.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Watercolours mixed selection - Make it stand out Ohel Leah Synagogue on Shabbat , part of a series of postcards, commissioned by the Jewish Historical Society 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/b8c79f03-9dec-4f66-944c-6e2284661803/IMG_3942.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Watercolours mixed selection - Make it stand out LIFFE Sketches for Futures Exchange, see Corporate reliefs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/65a4ab01-87bf-46d4-819c-c4aedc685a07/GSK+Watercolour.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Watercolours mixed selection - Make it stand out Road Sweep, GSK construction site. A1 watercolour and pencils on paper 2000-1 This was the view from a temporary studio, where I was based during the construction of GSK new headquarters, London. I’d regularly hear the sound as the road sweep went round the site squirting out jets of water with its big brushes cleaning the streets. Working on building sites I became very aware of the daily routine & cycles & became fascinated by the often mundane but essential processes that are part of creating these huge infrastructures. http://www.louisesoloway.com/pencil-ink-watercolour/project-two-mn76b-zlz72 monthly 0.5 2022-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d2855cd0-2f2b-4003-b8a4-e059ffd596d1/IMG_1672.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK - Make it stand out Zoom life drawing with @life_drawing_plus with models all were front line workers, this is one of the volunteers at the vaccination centre. Painted in Acrylics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/abeefdb0-b9c7-4a7f-821b-fbbe7d903552/Slipped+mask.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK - Make it stand out Mask under chin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/47b3eea2-32b4-46a8-8469-ea3e1e86ce8f/IMG_1658.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK - Make it stand out Vaccination Centre, Wentworth Medical Centre, note me having my Astra Zenika Jab. The woman handing out info sheets, discarded mask on the floor and a volunteer hand gelling everyone who enters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c057372b-1436-4fb3-8fbb-fb7d6fcb2d9b/IMG_0441.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK - Make it stand out Zoom Pilates, Cat stretch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/f2ce1b6b-049a-454d-9d1d-b1770dd3eb90/IMG_2108.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK - Make it stand out Hoody not sure if this guy was wearing a mask on the tube but inside his hoody it seemed like a black hole concealing his face https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/a13da9fb-e7c6-4584-84bc-866e6bf3905d/IMG_4382.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK - Make it stand out Turkish Barber ‘Cropz”, haircut rush before lockdown, see the yellow dividers, that’s my leg in the foreground, Halloween 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/90a4f08e-0c16-48a8-aa86-ac1ef263ef27/IMG_0495.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK - Make it stand out Who you looking at! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/b5b93b6e-39f3-43ea-b003-0ec50b108cea/IMG_0442.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK - Make it stand out Hands, Face, Space,... traveling on London Underground during release from semi lockdown in December 2020 when UK was in tiered lockdowns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/de5db0c2-01e8-43f5-9a28-eeda9edf5fc5/IMG_1268.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK - Make it stand out Zoom life drawing with @life_drawing_plus a session with models all who were front line workers during the height of the pandemic, this is nurse Steve. In acrylic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/7c4ca6c9-d892-4e5d-a381-add71ebaf21f/IMG_1309.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK Home schooling during lockdown, or rather gaming playing Game of Legends that apparently boomed during lockdown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/361ac7d7-c66d-42ca-a198-ea114097400f/IMG_1668.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pandemic inks UK - Make it stand out We ate so many pizzas during lockdown, I started using the bases to paint on, primed with gesso, these are acrylic http://www.louisesoloway.com/pencil-ink-watercolour/project-two-mn76b-zlz72-hb6jc monthly 0.5 2024-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/29c553f4-466c-4bf6-896f-ee3de8c5911b/IMG_2676.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - East Coast Inks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/a2b99de5-b90b-49f3-9f56-38f616bc502a/IMG_2933.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - East Coast Inks - Make it stand out Full Moon over the river Crouch, 2020 Chinese inks on Bamboo rice paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/3c35982f-4dbe-46f1-ac0c-d7271a769f43/IMG_4439.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - East Coast Inks - Make it stand out Jolly Fryer - Burnham on Crouch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/50f4f667-1027-43b0-959b-579dba7d6d3b/IMG_2900.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - East Coast Inks - Make it stand out Flower Moon, Last Super moon of 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/360ba67a-39a1-43d3-a90d-da6c23997f3c/IMG_0729.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - East Coast Inks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/6ea3f1cf-078f-40ae-8332-dfd5b44c9169/IMG_0414.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - East Coast Inks Walking West with the Westies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/49e9535c-d57c-478e-8466-0c78f3b62c69/Keep+Off+.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - East Coast Inks - Make it stand out Black Faced gulls made me smile during lockdown as they ignored all the rules. Chinese inks on rice paper 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/f7ecc946-f3c8-4c48-a064-aaffb62abf73/IMG_0684.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - East Coast Inks - Make it stand out The isolated park benches during lockdown seemed ever more resonant especially this one sealed off in its hexagonal enclosure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/29edafa7-163d-467a-ade2-4d3bd5d2bc34/IMG_1298.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - East Coast Inks - Make it stand out Orderly social distancing beginning of the lockdown, at the COOP Burnham On Crouch, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/385b69e1-2095-48a7-9553-8980ac37069c/IMG_2910.jpeg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - East Coast Inks - Make it stand out Cabin Dairy - Burnham on Crouch http://www.louisesoloway.com/pencil-ink-watercolour/project-two-mn76b-rctzh-rlzgz monthly 0.5 2024-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/81369b00-527c-435d-87e1-5870a681cb40/IMG_5646.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - New York Chinese Inks - Make it stand out Russ & Daughters Waiting for lox & cream cheese bagel 2017 Upper East Side…. Chinese inks & acrylic on bamboo grass paper. 42x46cms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/2ac495bc-270f-40a7-9f01-f39222e66d7b/IMG_5199.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - New York Chinese Inks Statue of Liberty Having a mobile phone break, Battery Park Spring 2022 …. Chinese inks & acrylic on bamboo grass paper. 42x46cms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/1669669634534-QHAVT94EAK8B69LQ75S0/IMG_5649.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - New York Chinese Inks - Make it stand out Halal Guys Sunny, yellow breezy moments, 6th Avenue W53rd July 2017… Chinese inks & acrylic on rice paper. 42x46cms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/ba9ceee6-229e-422b-b3f0-ef0dfe3e70e1/IMG_5653.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - New York Chinese Inks - Make it stand out Charging Bull of Wall Street Manhattan 2022 with vendor selling mini golden Bulls. Chinese inks & acrylic on bamboo grass paper. 42x46cms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/32a217ab-a792-4bc4-b9a4-a26766f9007c/IMG_5196.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - New York Chinese Inks - Make it stand out Ballet dancer Jeff Koons’s 45 foot inflatable ballerina Rockefeller Centre 2017… Chinese inks & acrylic on rice paper 42x46cms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/6f12543c-1ade-47fb-b978-e41d1404af89/IMG_5647.JPG Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - New York Chinese Inks - Make it stand out American Psyche, W57th & 8th street scene inspired by photograper Lee Friedlander. Chinese ink & acrylic on rice paper 42x46cms http://www.louisesoloway.com/pencil-ink-watercolour/project-one-m8c4m monthly 0.5 2022-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/5c857787-f5d3-4f44-a4d7-a54fa42f6d3a/Sketches+page+2.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pencil, sketchbooks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/dd9b9b00-60fb-4d65-abdf-dd9f119361f3/IMG_3835.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pencil, sketchbooks - Make it stand out Loved this woman leopard skin mask. This shows how directly I use sketches for reliefs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/c0ac1ed0-61b9-4315-ab4e-7b34e919ecd7/50.+Sketches+on+the+mini+bus+x4.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pencil, sketchbooks - Make it stand out Minibus drivers in Hong Kong, my favourite seat is directly behind the driver so the large rear mirror frames the interior scene, can you spot me descreetly drawing inside my handbag… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/7364f4a5-a3f7-4b51-9f14-85c02c83b63e/Asleep+on+the+tube.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pencil, sketchbooks - Make it stand out People nodding off on the way home, pre pandemic, 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/b6857055-06a1-4c34-8af8-ebbfd4bc24b4/men+in+masks+tube.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pencil, sketchbooks - Make it stand out More masks 2022, pencil on the spot sketches in A5 Sketchbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d11bfdc2-9ed7-43e5-b5aa-5bffafff466c/Hair+contraptions.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pencil, sketchbooks - Make it stand out Drawing at the hairdressers, love the strange contraptions, like the shoulder bowls (left) to catch the hair-dye and strange perming devices. That’s me in the middle having a rapid blow dry, 3 hairdressers working on me at the same time with 6 hairbrushes!.. these all feature in large relief panel see MTRC Sophisticates…pages torn out of small sketchbooks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61df2ff4c9d78a2aa6e33a1d/d8e0a22b-2ef5-486e-b04e-572204660c34/%C2%A3+masked+faces.jpg Pencil-Ink-Watercolour - Pencil, sketchbooks - Make it stand out People on the Northern line wearing masks, or letting the mask slip under their chin for a breather. On the spot sketches A6 2021