Portraits by Brushstokes

[Garth Herrick]

I met Yuqi Wang this past weekend at the PSOA conference. He is friendly and unassuming, and took an interest in discussing Marina Dieul's drawings (and even mine). I even bought his substantial retrospective monograph book right out of his hotel room.

He talked at length of the rigorous training artists go through in China. To say the least this benefit is more than evident in his own work.

So looking at these Chinese photocopied portrait examples, we can also see it is self-evident these artists have immense technical skills and training. It is a shame they cannot develop a voice here beyond copying photographs. They might all become beacons like Yuqi Wang.

Yuqi sounds pronounced as "you-chee", by the way. I am glad to have met him!

Garth