Ross Yau’s Hong Kong ink landscape, Elpis Chow@Exit Gallery & in the studio: Latin band, Carnivale
Kung Hei Fat Choi. This year, may the energy of the horse carry you to new adventures. Wishing you all a year filled with strength, good health, and rapid progress from all of us on The Works.
Later in today’s show, we’re kicking off the Year of the Horse with speed, vitality, and passion in the company of the Latin band, Carnivale. Before that though, a genre of Chinese painting that’s inspired generations of artists: traditional landscape painting. An ongoing exhibition at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology highlights the approaches of four young ink artists to rendering Hong Kong’s landscapes in the traditional style. We spoke to one of them: Ross Yau.
"Sprawl", Elpis Chow’s solo exhibition at Gallery EXIT, features her most recent oil paintings. Trained as an illustrator and painter, Chow focuses on easily overlooked objects and on Hong Kong’s urban landscape. Bright colours and layered brushstrokes build texture and form. Her style might seem to tend towards realism, but in her words: “These paintings aren’t realism, but about seeing”.