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For Immediate Release
Beyond Nature II
Paintings
by Katie Cheung
February 3 - March 31, 2017
Opening Reception | Friday,
February 3, 3 - 6pm
Meet the Artist | Katie
Cheung will be in attendance
Radiance of life
Like petals scattered across the
universe
Forming a beautiful movement of a
symphony1
 We are
very pleased to present the work of
gallery artist, Katie Cheung, in Beyond
Nature II, her third solo
exhibition at Art Beatus (Vancouver)
Consultancy Ltd and a continuation
of her solo exhibition, Beyond
Nature, at Art Beatus Hong
Kong in 2015. This exhibition
features a selection of acrylic on canvas
paintings, mostly of flowers, and although
she does not subscribe to any one painting
method or style, each of her works seem to
exude a splendor and a playful lushness
that is distinctly Katie Cheung.
Always evolving through constantly
experimenting and challenging herself as
she approaches each new work, Cheung
has not only matured into a master
colourist but her paintings have a
spontaneous and instinctive ease that has
developed from honing her craft with a
remarkably harmonious mix of experiential
and experimental.
According to Cheung, “My enjoyment
in gardening unexpectedly has routed me in
picking flowers and apples as objects for
depiction. The vibrancy of colours help in
turning imageries into a series of dreams.
The merging of my subconscious and
non-subconscious minds motivate the
progression of my works.” The artist does
not paint from real life or still life as
a reference point but the ethereal and
seemingly boundless worlds that exist in
her paintings are all of her own
construction: “...I just want to paint and
express myself freely on canvas, recording
what is in my heart.”
Earnestly beautiful and delightful, this
collection of artwork in Beyond
Nature II creates a visually
complex universe made up of impastoes,
washes and glazes in bright splashes of
sumptuous colours – some of which seem
neat out of the paint tube – as well as
vortices of dark, muted, primordial
colours that are soulfully haunting. This
master of flower paintings has created
works that are bursting with vitality yet
full of serenity, and lyrically symphonic
yet ethereally mysterious.
Born in Hong Kong and having moved to
Canada as a young adult, Katie Cheung
studied fine arts at Langara College from
1991 to 1993 before graduating from Emily
Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1996.
Cheung has been exhibiting for over
20 years and her work has been written
about in several articles and
reviews. In 2000, she published a
catalogue of her paintings and poems
called, Apple from My Heart.
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Excerpt from “Symphony of Life” by Katie
Cheung. Cheung, Katie. Apple from My
Heart: Paintings and Poems. New
Taipei City: Growing Culture Enterprise,
2000, p. 40. Print.
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location in Vancouver, Canada and two locations in
Hong Kong, showcases international art with a
focus on contemporary Chinese art. Art Beatus
(Vancouver) is located in the Nelson Square Office
Tower at 108 – 808 Nelson Street. For more
information, please contact Media Relations, Tamla
Mah or Ellinda Siu.
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