Annual Art Award, 10 May 2006

My painting of aeroplanes was shortlisted for the Annual Art Awards for 2006. I had a nice drink and food at the event, and also met new people.

Before the awards were given, my friend and I discussed the other short-listed artwork that was being displayed and tried to guess which ones would win the prizes. It turned out that we were wrong!

I talked to one person Tim, he said he works as a member of staff at the City airport and because of the loud noise from the planes, he now has to wear a hearing aid on his left ear.

Another man talked with me. He works as an engineer at the airport. He told me, that he liked my artwork because of the colours and movement. It reminded him of the aircraft. My painting was of the sunset over the airport and used a lot of orange light.

After one hour, they asked us to go to a meeting room to receive the first, second and third prizes. I felt quite nervous while I heard the Director reading out the names of the first and second prizes. I did not win an award, but everyone was a winner as it was a really good experience.

© Sheng-Kai Chou 2006