"The Look" Painting

From the start creating art was spontaneous. I was a little kid picking up a pencil or a crayon and drawing anything and everything - houses, mountains, friends at school. It was just there - the desire to make pictures with whatever I had to hand. From as early as I can remember, I wanted to create art in one form or another. When I told my family how I wanted to study art at the Academy, they said I couldn’t, that I should study for a job in accountancy instead. But there were art classes at school and two years later the art teacher managed to eventually persuade my parents to let me try. I was accepted, graduated and went on to work as an architectural designer shaping the insides and exteriors of buildings.

Outside of work I painted, as I always had, learning new techniques but with the goal of putting my own unique stamp on whatever I created, so that people would look at a painting and know it to be one of mine. And this is what drives me, along with the intense satisfaction of people liking my art enough, my tiny vision of the world, to have it on their walls and look at it everyday.

I have experimented with many styles across the art spectrum, all the way from realism to impressionism, holding a strong belief in the benefit of experiencing diversity to widen and push my painting forward. To know directly how to do something.

Now, an American citizen and living in California, my family have become old enough for me to paint full-time. With a studio at my home, my paintings, over the past year, have taken the direction of abstract expressionism. A whole new world for me to paint often using bits and pieces from my vivid memories of China, with its legends and myths.

I have quickly become enthralled with this new path - paintings with hidden meaning, half-glimpsed, often half-formed faces and figures, spirals of colour, the structure occasionally disappearing into 3D.

I have always had a small stream of painting sales. A few here and there in galleries along with a gathering amount of new customers getting in contact through word-of-mouth. I'm very pleased to say that the new direction my art has taken is being received enthusiastically. Local sales are now building, along with potential buyers asking to visit my studio and view paintings.

I feel the time has now arrived to put my art on-line and Saatchi is an ideal platform.