After the success of his first book ‘My Hong Kong’, which contained pastoral landscapes and coastal scenes of Hong Kong, Mark Talbot Roberts pays tribute to the traditional religious beliefs of the many Chinese people, who inhabit his adopted home. In this new book, which comprised a three-year project, the artist has painted more than ninety Chinese temples, each of which portrays its own unique history and culture. With his signature layered washes and varied tonal values, Mark’s watercolours of Chinese temples provides a Western view of a traditional Chinese subject. While some temples are large and very well decorated, others (and especially shrines) are, by contrast, small and unassuming. The larger and more ornate temples, some of which are relatively newly built, reflect the thriving community in which they tend to be located whilst the smaller temples and shrines offer a glimpse of people’s past lives and their traditional beliefs and values.