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Welcome
to Kwong Kuen
Shan's Chinese Brush Painting Website.
Kwong
Kuen Shan is a Chinese painter and writer who lived and
worked in London for many years. In 1994 she moved to
live and work in Wales, where she continues to paint, exhibit her
work and teach Chinese brush painting.
She was
born and brought up in Hong Kong where she studied both English
and Classical Chinese. She later studied traditional Chinese
Brush painting and developed her own style from that background.
"The Cat and The Tao", was her first book, and her
second book is "The Philosopher
Cat", published Heinemann/Random House
buy here.
A note on
Chinese names: Chinese names put
the family name first, then the personal names. So Kuen
Shan is her own name, and Miss Kwong the polite form of address.
Here you will
find
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some
introductory information about
Chinese brush painting
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some
information about the painter (below)
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information
about
Books
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galleries of paintings which can
be bought as prints
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contact details.
Prints are
near
fine art quality, using Epson
Ecotank inks on acid-free 300gsm heavy
card.
News:
The Cat & The Tao
Second Edition
Now available in Paperback, this classic
collection is reissued in its second edition, at £17:
Author's Note:
After over 20
years, The Cat and the Tao has gone
out of print. As there is still demand for this book, I
have decided to reprint it privately. I have tried to make this
edition as far as possible identical to the original, although
the colour quality is improved: thanks to technological advances
over the intervening decades, the reproduction of my paintings
is closer to the true colours than was possible in the first
edition.
KKS 2023
Published by the Author, it is available only
from the author,
price £17 + £2.80 p+p UK
Kuen Shan's latest book, out
August 2023, is
Chinese Poetry
Peony
by
Liu Yuxi
The hibiscus in the garden
is showy and lacking in charm.
The lotus in the
pond
is tranquil but lacking in
vigour.
Only the peony is truly
magnificent.
When it blooms
the whole city goes wild.
Liu Yuxi (772 – 842)
a poet of the Tang Dynasty, famous for his lucid and succinct
prose.
Published by the Author, it is available only
from the author,
price £15 + £2.80 p+p UK;
price £15 + £7.50 p+p outside UK
Kuen-Shan's recent books
are
Les Chats et la Petite Fille
(The Cats and the Little
Girl)
published in
October 2021 by
Editions de l'Archipel of Paris, ISBN
9782809827156, price €18.50, and is available from
Archipel and
Amazon France.
Les 8 Bonheurs du Chat
(The Eight Blessings of the Cat)
Les Quatre Saisons du Chat (Tao Cat Four Seasons)
published by
Editions de l'Archipel of Paris, ISBN
9782809825480,
price
€18.50, and can
be purchased
here or
here
Le Chat qui m'aimait (The Cat who loved me)
once again published by
Editions de l'Archipel, Paris, EAN
9782809823219,
price €19.95,
available from
Amazon or
Amazon France .
The Orchid Cat,
first published as
Le chat à l’orchidée:
by
Editions de
l'Archipel, Paris, available
here; and as Il Gatto e l'Orchidea by
Edizioni Ippocampo, Milan in Spring 2016.
Other languages
to follow!
AND:
Also from Archipel, Chats du Tao, a brilliant idea: a book of
10 prints of Kuen-Shan's paintings, plus heavy card mounts to
match the prints - ready to assemble.
On sale now, €24.95.
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Kuen Shan's two previous books published in English are:
The Tao
of Dogs (Three Willows Press
2016)
and
Portrait of Wales, a Chinese View
(Three Willows Press, 2015).
Go to
Books page for more details and
how to buy.
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