In celebrating our 30th anniversary, Alisan Fine Arts is pleased to present "Enchanted Seasons" a solo exhibition by Shanghai artist Leng Hong. Around 20 of his most recent abstract landscapes from his "Blue Mountains, Green Water" series will be on display. This series revolves around the four seasons: spring, summer, fall, winter, with an emphasis on spring.

Leng Hong is one of the most important overseas Chinese artists since China's economic reform in 1978. He is 56-years-old and currently lives in Canada. His landscape paintings are refreshing modern and full of beauty. In 1987, Alisan Fine Arts organized one of the first group exhibitions of mainland Chinese artists at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Titled "A State of Transition, Contemporary Painting from Shanghai," Leng was one of the selected 14 artists included in the show. After 24 years, we are now proud to present his new works in a solo exhibition for the forth time at the gallery.

Leng Hong (born 1955, Shanghai, China) is an artist who is strongly rooted in Chinese culture, mastering traditional Chinese ink painting techniques, such as those found in ancient landscape paintings by well known Tang Dynasty artist Yan Liben (601-673) and by Northern Song Dynasty artist Fan Kuan (year unknown). At the same time, he also learnt European painting techniques while studying at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in 1975. Eventually he combines the East and the West, using Western colours and Eastern subject matters resulting in dream-like landscapes in Chinese ink and acrylic on rice paper. Old Chinese pavilions and houses, mountains, rivers, trees, ships and vessels often appear in his paintings as symbolic images. These images are composed by running brush strokes and brilliant colours, giving lightness, suppleness and spatial depth to nature's scenery in his paintings. Leng uses different tones of colour to represent the different seasons, such as summer's warm yellows and blues, autumn's cool ochres and reds, spring's fresh greens and browns, beautifully merging the East and the West. These bright and cheerful colours recall Marc Chagall (1887-1985, French artist), while the "Blue Mountains, Green Water" scenes of nature reflect beautiful Tang and Song Dynasty poetry.