ELIXIR OF PROSPERITY

Artist Yang Yongliang breathes life and good fortune into Hennessy's Lunar New Year collection, in honour of the Chinese zodiac's dragon.

- KC YAP

RAISED IN A PICTURESQUE OLD WATER TOWN in Greater Shanghai and was trained in traditional Chinese landscape painting, Yang Yongliang later went to college in central Shanghai to study digital and threedimensional art. As he was growing up and learning about different artistic techniques, Shanghai was undergoing a significant and rapid urban transformation all around him. All of these influences fuelled Yongliang’s artistic style.

Today, Yongliang is known for mixing traditional Chinese art with contemporary, innovative digital technology, practising digital photography like a painter. His work for Hennessy, Dragon’s Odyssey, sees him combine these artistic mediums, connecting the past, present and future, taking the traditional dragon and breathing life into them with a three-dimensional element.