Artist Hong Bao, Whisper in Your Ear, 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 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.

Time’s Up is a mixed media piece composed in majority by a gloomy palette creating a mysterious atmosphere. The bottom half holds the darkest colours, and the top half introduces rays of light into the painting with shades of white and light turquoise. The shapes are quite abstract, yet,  you can notice a crowd of people, rectangular shapes in the middle of the piece that could resemble briefcases. It seems the piece reflects on the everyday life routine of going to work. Our brains are switched onto “automatic” and we forget to actually live the present.

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”.

Time Series 1 is a mixed media painting with a very bright and dominant red colour. There is a contrast between the dense red & black area of the piece and the diluted, lighter colours on the left of the painting. There is a definite pattern we can perceive either through the paint brush strokes or the superposition of collage layers.

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”.

Sail, is one of the few pieces from Wang where figurative and abstract meet. She created a lovely smokey and abstract sea, behind a body of origami-like shaped boats. Some of the boats are clearer than others depending on the colour and placement in the work. We can’t quite figure if all the boats are supposedly in the the see or the shore which adds another abstract and mysterious layer to the narration of the painting.

Wang allows a space in her works for the audience’s own interpretations and emotions. She has a very loving and peaceful nature, yearning for good and looking towards the future which is depicted into her art. The works very much talk about romance, sincerity, amiability and nature.