BIOGRAPHIES OF ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE W&G ...

journalism and landscapes to
portraiture and fashion. Three decades
on and having made a successful
career out of that hobby he feels a very
fortunate man.
Weinstein currently resides in Sydney,
Australia.
LORRAINE WESTWOOD
Born in 1965 in Wolverhampton, central
England, Westwood was often found
drawing and painting as a young child.
After paying her way through art college
by pavement drawing she began illustrating
for design and advertising
agencies. A few years later Lorraine
opened a photographic studio with her
husband.
She has worked in a variety of media as
an illustrator – watercolour, acrylic, ink,
pastel, crayon, but didn't start working
in oils until 2004 when she decided to
concentrate on fine art.
Westwood continues, “After moving
permanently to France, I’m now inspired
by all things French. I work mainly in oils
as I enjoy the richness of the colours. I
apply the paint quite thickly with definite
brush marks. My favourite piece of work
is whatever I am working on at present.”
PETER WILEMAN
Peter was born in 1946 in Middlesex,
England. On leaving school he went
straight into his first job as a studio
junior for a card company where his
innate artistic talent was recognised.
There he spent five years studying
lettering and design – his first artistic
training – which gave him a solid
grounding in colour awareness and
formal structure.
Wileman then moved on to become art
editor on a number of magazines, until
finally he tired of the rat-race and set
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himself up as a freelance illustrator. His
years of experience stood him in good
stead, covering as they did, all aspects
of design and illustration.
Working freelance gave Peter the opportunity
to concentrate on his painting,
and he has produced a substantial
body of highly expressive work inspired
by Britain’s coves and harbours. His
large-scale compositions have a
painterly quality derived from the
apparent vigour of the brushstrokes and
the impression of spontaneous
creativity, which make them both
dramatic and uplifting.
CHENG YAN
A Chinese painter and calligrapher, Yan
came to Europe in the 1990s and now
runs his own gallery in Cardiff, Wales.
He began painting under a Chinese
master at the age of five. His work is in
many private and national collections,
including the National Gallery of China.
WEI YING-WU
Wei was born in 1977 in Hong Kong. He
started to paint in his late teens whilst
studying theology at university. His
interest in Buddhist philosophy
developed during this period and the
subject matter for his work increasingly
came to be almost exclusively
dominated by imagery relating to this
interest.
Wei left Hong Kong in 2000 and after a
year travelling round mainland China
with a companion, moved to San
Francisco where he lives today. In 2002
he married a sculptress. His wife shares
Ying-Wu’s interests and beliefs and they
rapidly began to work on creative
projects together, the recent piece
‘Meditation’ being a fine example of
their collaboration.
Peter Wileman