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Au Yeung Nai Chim likes playing graffiti since childhood and later on fell in love with painting. He does a lot of life sketches to portray scenic images.
He produces a lot of artworks in Hong Kong, comprising of sketches, watercolors, ink and others. While he is traveling aboard, he records different subjects with quick sketches and eventually completes several series of paintings including Yanshan Hike, Listen to sound of the Yangtze River in the Moonlight, Impression of Qian Shan, Scroll-Style Album, and Taihang Mountain Melody.
During the 1990’s, he spent five years to visit most of the urban and rural areas in Hong Kong. He recorded what he saw with quick fountain pen sketches, and the paintings were published in newspapers everyday with notes. These images and texts are collected into a series of four albums, the Sketches of Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum have collected more than 60 pieces of artworks by Au Yeung Nai Chim. These include watercolors, ink, sketches and a series of paintings, titled Taihang Mountain Melody.
The Art Museum of China in Beijing has also collected a combination of watercolor and ink works by Au Yeung Nai Chim, titled Spring. |