Today we had our Chinese lunch in the gallery because we had to celebrate a kind of opening amongst us. This of course sounds a bit strange after the official one of nearly two weeks ago, but as it always is, there is an explanation.

I have already mentioned a few times the name of my art companion here in the gallery, the Australian Hilary Pollock. We regularly go out for dinner or for visiting Beijing with Hilary and her husband Graem. Just as I had done Hilary took a big role of oil paintings with her from home and had them stretched here. She also had the intention to create a number of paintings on paper in the gallery because we have the facility to do so during our exhibition. We both do so but Hilary spends more time on that then I do. In the series of paintings she took with her, dedicated to the five senses, she already had worked with a variety of Chinese symbols. With this she continued in a series of four different Chinese pots on a real big format of paper. This series she just finished before the official opening.
But after that she started a new series about the four seasons and this she ended this morning. So now you know the explanation for our small celebration in the gallery in the form of a Chinese banquet.
To give an impression of her work I made the pictures you can see here.