Featuring new series of project and latest paintings, “Growth Rings” is the third ever major solo exhibition by Hong Kong artist Corn Ho Shuk Mei.

The exhibition particularly focuses on Corn Ho Shuk Mei’s Landscape-memory Series, which was started in 2013. The series includes two things that fascinate her most: people’s innermost world and the disappeared sights. She interviewed people about their personal experiences. Her paintings gradually displayed their innermost world as the interviews went deeper and deeper. This resembles the nature of oil painting, layer by layer and long lasting.

As an onlooker, she recorded people’s feelings and temperaments at the moment, putting the beautiful but unreachable sights in their memories forever on the canvas. The different stories shine like crystals.

About the artist:

Corn Ho Shuk Mei graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010, majoring in Fine Arts and minoring in French Studies. Current , She works in her studio in Fotan, Hong Kong (World-wide 817). Corn specializes in oil painting but also presents her personal thoughts in a lively and symbolistic way through diverse media including film, installation and photography.

Corn is fond of observing people, and her works offer fancy associations of human existence (skin, body structure and mental situation) with different translucent color layers of oil paintings. Capturing moments, memories and atmospheres is what she usually pursues in her works.

Recently, Corn has put focus on painting people in landscape life drawing of places of past memories that have strange and relevant relationship with the reality world.

-Culture Club Gallery

Image: © Corn Ho Shuk Mei
Courtesy of the artist and Culture Club Gallery