Show celebrates Anthony Stones' ties with China

Feng Lili, the widow of UK-born sculptor Anthony Stones who died earlier this year at the age of 82, recalls her husband once telling her that he would rather people remember the statues he made more than his own face.

Months after his death in Beijing, an ongoing retrospective exhibition opened on Saturday at the capital's National Art Museum of China, reviewing his career as a sculptor and painter, as well as his close connections with China, where he lived for more than 15 years.

Titled Between China and West, the exhibition displays more than 200 sculptures and paintings. It shows the mark Stones left in continuing with the classical traditions of Western sculpture, and his creativity in painting and set design that gives viewers a glimpse of his broad vision of the art forms.