A unique and highly original portfolio of signed Fine Art Limited Edition Lithographs by Pat Elliott Shircore . . . Please contact us for corporate or private sales. Tel: (852) 2818 9775 or email us Full Contents Page Viewing Rooms Foyer Gallery Online Price List Viewing Room 1 - 5 Click-through Picture Viewing The Sales Room Enquiries Sign the Guest Book . About the Series: The Story The Reviews The Artist Exhibitions The Art . The History Pages The Treaty of Nanking 1842 The Convention of Peking 1898 . Calligraphy, Art and History Links Sources "Signed and Sealed" is a series of 30 Limited Edition Lithographs by artist, Pat Elliott Shircore. The images were created by blending extracts from the original documents marking the beginning and end of Hong Kong's colonial history, the Treaty of Nanking (or Nanjing as it is now called) of 1842, when China ceded Hong Kong 'in perpetuity' to Britain, and the Second Convention of Peking of 1898, when the area under British rule was extended by lease for 99 years. On June 30th 1997, the date of the Hong Kong Handover, that lease expired, the British renounced all claims to the territory and Hong Kong was handed back to China. This series of work pays tribute to Hong Kong's heritage and explores the surprisingly harmonious mixture of signatures, seals and the individual cultural mores which shine through every page of the legal documents as an unwitting expression of Hong Kong's rich multi-cultural legacy, both British and Chinese. Through the fusion of images, textures, colours and tones, the artist has created a truly dynamic series of pieces. Pat has blended individual elements from the parchments which contain a wealth of beautiful calligraphy and artefacts. She worked from laser colour copies of the original documents which she found and researched at the Public Records Office in London. The series was traditionally printed lithographically onto soft, hand-torn Terreus paper, with wide borders embossed with the printer's imprimatur, and produced as a signed Limited Edition of 97 pieces. The artist chose to effect the creative process on the computer, the only way in which to preserve the individual integrity of characters, seals, textures and chops. This allowed her to do something which, until recently, would have been deemed impossible, providing the ability to capture the original ingredients of the documents with complete exactitude, whilst allowing the flexibility to manoeuvre images to the limits of imagination. Pat has pioneered a fundamentally new tool, or working medium, within the world of Fine Art. She has initiated a school of artistic approach that views the computer as nothing more than a modern-day brush and canvas, ignoring the plug-ins and effects commonly available. In this series of work the artist has used the original textures of the source material as her paint, the tools of the colour separator as her brushes, and the multi-layered properties of the monitor as her canvas. (go to next page - The Viewing Room Foyer) Top of Page

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