"Nidus" Painting

In our short ephemeral life, the artist’s duty is to crate a legacy that shall persevere till the end of time, as a reminder to beauty, its inevitable decay, and the ultimate return to religion, something we hold true to ourselves.



In my artistic practice, thinking is the initial stage like all things. Before its formation, it exists in the form of neurons. Reality is constituted by the foundation of the void, reality itself is nothingness, the void is the reality. My reality is never realistic. Camus once said: “There is no love of life without despair of life.” Without imagination and abstraction, reality cannot exist. My paintings are fragments of thoughts, on music, literature, philosophy, religion, culture, aesthetics, emotions, and senses.

Born in an erudite household, Jason Chung Tang Yen’s childhood has been imbued with an abundant environment of art and culture from an early stage. His creative path started in 2002 with a series of abstract watercolor on paper works and has continued his artistic practice ever since. Yen’s tableau mainly depicts thoughts, emotions, sentiments and ambiances that are undetectable by the naked eye. For he believes that the rawest poignancy of colors requires no logic or language, which can be directly perceived to interpret the intended meaning and purposes. His source of inspiration came from an eclectic range of music, philosophy, literature, religion, science, process of thinking, and the connection of various elements.