"The flowers" Painting

Ngai Ning Yu (b.2003, Hong Kong) is an award-winning London-based fine artist working with oil paint. She completed her Bachelors degree in Fine Art Painting with First Class Honours at the University of the Arts London (2025). As the overall winner of the Delphian Open Call 2025, she will be having a solo exhibition at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop in autumn 2026 presented by Delphian Gallery.

“ My practice explores the notion of ‘home’ as an emotional space of belonging, where memory can be revisited through light and shadow. As an oil painter, I am interested in the philosophies of home as investigated through a phenomenological lens. These isolating yet universal revelations on nostalgia, memory, and loss largely inform my work. I like to employ the motific nature of domestic landscapes and the liminality of light and space to create tangible tension, a collective aloneness reflective of the dichotomy between the inner mind and the exterior world. I work from photographs and memories of significant places I have once inhabited, and I like to hide the figures within my compositions, so that they are seen through their shadow silhouettes or obstructed by another layer of space, existing only as an echo that draws on my sentimentality towards a certain time and place.”