"Along the Bridges" is the first solo exhibition of emerging Hong Kong artist Seeyu (Mitchell Hung). She chose to use a series of sketches and ink paintings to express her sentiments and pursuance to traditional Chinese Arts.  The collection covers local city landscape and classic scenes drawn from life sketches. 

 

“The bridge” is not merely refers to the concrete bridge, it composes multiple meanings, including emotions sharing, communications, association to beauty and mutual respect. With the use of modern and traditional ink painting techniques, the artist bridged herself with the city views, strives to engrain the traditional culture with the young generation.  Mitchell wishes to share the nature with the audience who in return seeks, appreciates, and eventually preserves the core essential elements of Hong Kong community.

 

With strong passion for Hong Kong, the artist used her artworks to reconstruct the diminishing poetic sentiment.   Instead of picking the bustling metropolitan life, she has chosen the natural tranquility and attempted to adopt ”Reverie Realism”, that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into realistic city landscapes, as her main artistic pursuance.

 

 

The exhibition covers various city landscapes which mainly divides into five key themes

 

Bridges

 

More than 20 paintings with the artist’s particular focus in pedestrian bridges, highways, wooden bridges etc.  She captured the intimate scene of connection in our daily life.

 

Waterfront

 

Plenty of works on waterfronts of the beautiful Victoria Harbour.   Clouds and ferries are in dark green, its natural qualities are approaching ink, adding flavor to the indigo tone. The city's drainage, reservoirs and rivers are also the key inspiration in this series.  Four Seasons in Chung Chi College suggests a reminiscence of the Alma mater of the artist.

 

Beloved Shamshuipo

 

A project of 17 paintings - this is a project with her own personalities, tasked with interpreting the community in  the past 2 years with sketches of her alma mater, Holy Trinity College,  and Lei Cheng Uk park.  She brought her emotions to the community and became an integral part of her identity.

 

Life at a glance

 

Food stalls, wreath, Chinese opera, dragon and lion dances, festival celebration…. etc, these contributes to some unique social and cultural activities as the main theme in this series.

 

12 Paintings of the Lunar Months

 

This series demonstrated records of annual events and activities, aligned with seasonal plants.