‘From accident, obliteration, scrawl and neglect has come an art which captures Hong Kong’s energetic, distinctive personality.’

Henry Steiner, 2006

Hong Kong has been my home since 1976. Throughout these years, whilst working in the graphic arts industry and as a watercolour artist and photographer, I have enjoyed sauntering through the older and more traditional parts of Hong Kong and elsewhere.

During these frequent retreats I have been struck by the many accidental images, often formed without intent or even purpose, which betray striking similarities to the work of abstract artists I have always admired; Stella, Calder, Rothko, de Stael to name a few.

This interest led to my recording and exhibiting photographs of these fragments of imagery which we so often ignore in our urban landscape. I was, at first, not sure how people would respond to these images, for they have always been presented exactly as found, without any cropping or computer manipulation. The positive response surprised and delighted me.

This website shows the development of my work, and features the series of six exhibitions of limited edition prints which have taken place in Hong Kong and Britain between 2003 and the present.  

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