Blurred Visionary – The Peking Art of Katharine Jowett

Katharine Jowett, who worked in Beijing in the interwar period, is an artist who has always intrigued me – a wealth or oils and water colours, woodcuts and linocuts, yet very little personal information. So I decided to try and find out as much as possible about her. Jowett never saw herself really as a professional artist (despite acclaim, sales, commissions and exhibitions) so she never really pushed herself meaning we have this fantastic body of work with little biographical information on the artist….So I set oiut to find out what I could and hopefully win her some new fans….It’s all in the South China Morning Post weekend magazine here…