Tseng Yu arrives at my flat as I am having breakfast.
He wants to take me to see a painter. As we walk down through the university compound we meet Amy, another of my students, whom we invite to come with us.
We go by ferry over to Kowloon then take a bus into the New Territories. As we walk first along the shore then inland, TY wonders whether we should press on. He says, apologetically, that he doesn¹t know why he has dragged us such a long way as this man is a bad painter and not worth seeing.
Well the day is warm even though winter, and the company is good so, having got so far, we agree to continue. After an hour or so TY says we are there. Walking though a bamboo grove and past a stream, we enter into a courtyard flanked by low buildings. An animated young man comes out to greet us, all shake hands and we sit down among the chickens and running cockroaches. We drink cups of hot water, are shown woodcuts, meet his wife and eat a Sharps toffee,. TY and the friend chat in Chinese then after some 2 hours, leave.
But it is only 2 o¹clock so Tseng Yu suggests we visit another friend. an up-and-coming art photographer Chen Yi. He is not in but I leave my visiting card and a note............
Two days later I receive the invitation to Huang Yun Yu's exhibition and take Mr and Mrs Scott (British Council) to meet him.
This is the first of so many fruitful, and often hilarious times that a group of friends met to enjoy the company of Tseng Yu and his friends Huang Yun Yu and Chen Yi.....and it was the occasion when, (this time on a table napkin), Huang Yun Yu did the first of his many caricature sketches of myself & friends.
Two Chinese Painters
Chinascapes
The purpose of this blog is to celebrate the work of two artists, Tseng Yu and Huang Yun Yu, my friendship with both of them in Hong Kong 1951-2 and with Tseng Uu subsequently in london and paris. Please start by clicking on Backstory then my first meeting with Huang Yun Yu below. After that, wander freely among their pictures, plus my photographs and stories about us all taken from my diary and letters home. These last are still being posted, in random order.
The purpose of this blog is to celebrate the work of two artists, Tseng Yu and Huang Yun Yu, my friendship with both of them in Hong Kong 1951-2 and with Tseng Uu subsequently in london and paris. Please start by clicking on Backstory then my first meeting with Huang Yun Yu below. After that, wander freely among their pictures, plus my photographs and stories about us all taken from my diary and letters home. These last are still being posted, in random order.
