Maevaughn Chiu

Maevaughn Chiu ~ b1966


My interest lies in the relationship between colour and form and the emotions they elicit from the viewer. My paintings have a distinctive aesthetic, they are the culmination of my life and my relationship with the world through art.

The shapes and forms are part of my internal visual library. Images collected from my earliest memories of living with my parents and sisters, moving between Malawi, a village in West Yorkshire and South Sudan. Then as an adult in the Solomon Islands, Hong Kong and Canada. All these diverse cultures and aesthetics feed into my work. Memories of feelings and places. Drawing on my relationship with art and design, I often use shapes that I associate with particular chapters of my life, as an aid to the indistinct memory of the sensation.

The images occupying my focus at the moment are from my early days at art college in Yorkshire in the 1980s. The imagery of postmodernism, Richard Rodgers, Ettore Sottsass and the 'Memphis' collective, and Missoni. This, combined with the art books that were a constant companion in my childhood. Victor Passmore, Barbara Hepworth, Salvador Dali and Agnes Martin.

I use small sketches and cut-outs to loosely compose a painting, then paint intui...

1984 - Dip. Interior Design.
1985 - H.Dip. Interior Design (Half completed)
1986 - Foundation in Art and Design
Batley School of Art and Design,West Yorkshire.

1989 - BA(Hons) Theatre Design, Nottingham Trent University. Nottingham.

2008 - MFA Fine Art.
(Half completed)
City and Guilds of London Art School

Working first in theatre and later in interiors as a decorative painter and muralist. I also painted portraits and landscapes from life.
I have travelled and lived in countries in Africa, (as a child) Solomon Islands, Hong Kong and Canada, all of which have influenced my visual interests and vocabulary.

'Colours of the Mind' Exhibition by 'Recollective' at Delta House Gallery, London SW17 0BA. June 3 - 22, 2024
Wimbledon Art Fair 2024
Wimbledon Art Fair 2023
Wimbledon Art Fair 2022
Wimbledon Art Fair 2014
Wimbledon Art Fair 2013