Ancient Spirit Modern Flair: The Art of Joan Lok is a full-color album containing 72 of Ms. Lok’s paintings from 1996-2008. Written in a bilingual format (English-Chinese), Joan shares her painting philosophies, her passion for the art of painting, and the source of her talent and inspirations. The album includes some of the prize-winning works that she has painted throughout the years.
Ms. Lok, a resident of Columbia, MD, is a wonderfully gifted artist. She is a dedicated scholar of the Lingnam School of Art, combining the techniques of "the East, the West, traditional and contemporary" into all her brush paintings. In addition to her expertise in this special school of art, she is also adept in the Sumi-e art form and enjoys working with rice paper and ink. One can certainly witness these techniques while perusing the paintings in this beautiful book. Her unique style of "bringing Chinese painting into the sunlight" makes her method attractive and pleasing to the eye. I am delighted that I can relish and revisit my appreciation of her spectacular pieces through Ancient Spirit Modern Flair: The Art of Joan Lok!
Read more about Ms. Lok in the Baltimore Sun’s December 6 article, Stroke of a Brush.
Join us as Ms. Lok demonstrates Chinese brush painting on Wednesday, December 9, from 7:00 – 8:30 pm at Central Library. Register online, by phone, or at Central Library.