Ng Ching-Wa — Chronicle of life in Hong Kong

For many years, Ng Ching-wa has been creating with lithography with as much passion as her love for life. She displays a surehanded control over the use of colours and techniques, a control that comes from a knowledge of her medium. The motivation to create comes from life: her subject matter is mostly taken from everyday things. She captures fleeting images and transient time by making use of the characteristics of lithography, translating them in accurate but tender, loving brush strokes which conveys delicate sensitive details such as the trembling of leaves in the breeze, the brightness of the morning sun, the sweet slumber of a child - the things and freedom people love and enjoy - into a style of lightheartedness and clarity in form and structure.

Ching-wa is endowed with a keen perception which lets her see what others cannot. Her works are a celebration of nature and of life. She has a heart-warming style that evokes in us a love for what life in Hong Kong offers. At the same time we share in her joy of creating.

As her subject matter grows, Ching-wa’s recent works also show an increasing depth and substance. In this collection under the theme of Hong Kong past and present, entitled “Life in Hong Kong - Then and Now”, she tells us, in a well-paced delineation of everyday life, a tale about Hong Kong which spans one hundred years and which warms our heart and soul.