Artist Hong Bao, A Musical Embrace, Mineral Painting

Wang Xiao Rong likes adventures which is something that pushes her to experiment a lot. Her work is composed by a multitude of materials and mediums. She will use objects such as leaves and papers in her paintings in addition to ink, Chinese painting, and oil pigment, according to her requirements. Thereafter she will often use those materials to create some forms of collages. Each material and colour has an emotional characteristic.

“From a macroscopic perspective, my works examine states of life existence and mourn about how life is short and time vanishes”.

The following piece is a mixed media composition.  The first layer holds shades of green which we could interpret as being in the deep waters of the ocean. Wang added some origami shaped boats on the canvas. Some are covered by green layers, some are above, as if a few boats had drowned in the ocean and a few were still surviving.

Wang Xiao Rong likes adventures which is something that pushes her to experiment a lot. Her work is composed by a multitude of materials and mediums. She will create with objects in her paintings such as leaves and papers, in addition to ink, oil pigment and the Chinese painting technique according to her requirements. Thereafter, Wang will often use those materials to create some forms of collages. Each material and colour has an emotional characteristic.

“From a macroscopic perspective, my works examine states of life existence and mourn about how life is short and time vanishes”.

This painting is a mixed media piece. The dominance of the yellow and the horizontal lines create an optical illusion in which the painting looks like a 3D piece. The white rectangular shapes in the middle, form a tower coming out of the painting. The yellow shape above displays a sort of empty space,  or hole in a surface. When we think about a state of life, we could imagine a pile of papers on a desk, and the emptiness this every day life, routine represents.