1st April 2008
'Angels from Hell' is the title of the exhibition of new paintings from Han Yajuan, which will surely strike a chord with every fashionista. Featuring cartoon like images of her cute, impish heroines, YaJuan captures the bling of designer labels. Using electric coloured oils she depicts the whirligig of glamour and shopping, travel and collecting, and of playtime and frivolity, with each image carrying her leitmotif of a little cow; a symbol of femininity. Despite fashion logos littered throughout, as if sweeties in a sweetie shop there is a suggestion that shopping alone is not enough to bring happiness. These angelic images are totally captivating and are shown for the first time in St. James's, a stones throw from Bond Street, stamping ground of fashion houses and the fashionable. It should be a marriage made in heaven.
Han Yajuan born in Nanjing, has a degree from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and is about to complete her Masters from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Fascinated by fashion and celebrity culture, Han YaJuans paintings are characterised by pixie girls who dance, fly and dream of designer goodies. Over the last year Yajuan's paintings have been trebling in price and fetching record prices at the auction houses...
