Grotto Fine Art, established in 2001, is a gallery specializing in Hong Kong contemporary art.  Our mission is to promote local artists of Hong Kong.  Based in Hong Kong, a city known for its unique combination of different cultures, the gallery is dedicated to local artistic production with a particular interest in the newest and most avant-garde art forms.
(Artists are listed in alphabetical order)

CHENG Caroline (b.1962)

is the brain behind the Pottery Workshop at the Fringe Club, Hong Kong's premier ceramic studios. Like her curatorial ability, Cheng's creative strength is also based on her keen observation and understanding of Chinese history, both ancient and contemporary. Using political and social icons as central themes, Cheng's ceramic works satirize current issues often by metaphoric titles, humorous composition and bold colors. They are the most daring and cynical expressions in the current local art circle.

Streets of Mong Kok
Oil on canvas

CHENG Chi-Fai (b.1971)

Cheng Chi-fai is an accomplished oil painter focusing on local landscape and city scene. Educated at the Coventry University in England, Cheng received classical training in painting and drawing. Cheng's works demonstrate strong commitment to Renaissance's perspective, chiaroscuro and composition but maintain faithfully local in terms of the subject depicted. Both nostalgic and poetic, Cheng's old streets and neighbourhoods bring back memories of the golden age.

CHENG HALLEY (b.1986)

is a young Hong Kong artist whose artistic career spans a decade despite his age. Having mastered ancient landscape painting at an early age, Cheng entered the Chinese University Fine Arts department with a repertoire of skills. Upon graduation, Cheng focused on a collection of imitations of ancient masterpieces. Instead of forging an exact copy, Cheng aimed to recreate the appearance of subject with new medium such as charcoal, biro, adhesive tiles and pencil. Even the boarder of the painting is redone to create a new visual boundary. It is through this interaction of mediums that a synergy of expression become contemporary and relevant to the artist's root and age.

CHOW Chun-fai (b.1980)

is a well-established artist despite his young age. Graduating with multiple awards from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003, CHOW's work features street scenes and interiors that are devoid of numbers or signs. The absence of contextual information gives the viewer a timeless picture much like a snap shot or a scene in a movie. What CHOW intends to do is to redirect his audience to his brushwork and forms and, by adding sharp perspective to resemble a tunnel vision, presents a dramatic yet subtle image of a particular moment in time.

Ding's legacy as an artist started in the early part of the 20^th century.  A student of Western art in 1920's, Ding went to Tokyo to study modern art and was particularly attracted to the works of Matisse and the Fauves.  In 1949, Ding settled in Hong Kong and began his career with painting classical Chinese genres such as birds and flowers and figures.  Ding's works combined expressive brushwork and precise execution and never fail to give life to his given objects or forms.  Ding's unique style is perhaps best portrayed in his paintings of legends and opera singers wherein his unparallel mastery of the Chinese ink and brush and humor lied.

Detail of Nude
Ink & color on paper

is one of the most senior Hong Kong artists.  A master in painting, sculpture, photography and relief prints, Ha's versatility made him a distinguished artist of unique local characteristics.  Ha's works focus on everyday objects and environment with special attention given to tonal balance and textural treatment.  While technicality and craftsmanship might easily amaze the viewer, the true meaning of Ha's works always concerns the profound nature of life, both its humor and cynicism.

HO Siu-Kee (b. 1964)

Ho Siu-Kee was born in Hong Kong in 1964. He received the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1989, Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan , USA in 1995 and Doctor of Fine Art at the RMIT University, Australia in 2003. Ho has been an indispensable part of Hong Kong art and participated in numerous exhibitions locally and abroad, most noticeably representing Hong Kong at the 49 th Venice Biennial, Italy in 2001.

Ms Giraffe
Acrylic & ceramic clay on canvas

Kwok Ying's works focus on patterns and how different combination of simple forms can generate broader visual connotation. A physical artist who likes to use heavy industrial materials and labor-intensive works, Kwok applies pencil or ink on canvas that is pre-treated with a layer of ceramic clay. The artist creates repetitive patterns of organic or textile origins, at times imitating everyday fabrics while sometimes resembling animal skins. The finished pieces exert a unique sense of lightness and heaviness, masculinity and femininity reflective of the artist's character. In 2001, Kwok Ying won a Fine Art Award at the Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition and, in 2002, the Hong Kong Museum of Art acquired two of her works, making her one of the youngest artists ever collected.

White Water XXXIX
Ink & colour on paper

KAN Kit-keung (b.1943)

Dr. Kan Kit-Keung is a man of science and art. By profession, he is a physicist whose research concentrates on the building of a model to describe nature. As an artist, Kan's description of nature focuses on its visual and external order. Using traditional painting techniques such as “tsun" (texture) strokes and motifs, Kan delineates our visual world, minimized his hills and mountains, and gives his landscape a new sense of order and rhythm reminiscent of a modern architecture. By inserting a sense of lyricism into the abstract geometry and logic, Kan's art is redefining the fundamental building blocks of nature. The result is both enticing and visually stunning.

Twins
sand, Chinese ink & acrylic on wood

LAM TUNG-PANG

A muti-award winning graduate of the Fine Arts department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lam's graduating works feature the use of "raw" materials such as sand, mud and grass and their integration with conventional materials like acrylics and charcoal. Landscape is the central theme of the works of Lam who is able to create unsurpassed texture with the materials' natural quality. Combining heavy texture and minimalist composition, Lam's works are real yet surreal as well as provocative and innovative.

Mountain and Stream No. 3
Stainless steel

LEE Danny Chin-fai (b.1949)

is the present chairman of the Visual Art Society of Hong Kong . He founded the Creative Sculptors Society in Hong Kong in 1993 and has been a full time sculptor since 1998. Danny graduated from Swire School of Design in 1980 and the Extra-mural department of the University of Hong Kong in 1993 focusing on sculpture. His numerous awards include Second Prize (Sculpture) in “Olympic Art and Sport Contest 2000 ( Hong Kong )”, International Olympic Committee (1997) and First Prize (Sculpture) in “New Life”, Hong Kong Hospital Authority (2000). Lee's sculpture can be found in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, The Hong Kong Heritage Museum, The Hong Kong Hospital Authority, Hong Kong Housing Department , Hong Kong Airport Authority.

LEE Man sang (b.1962)

is a master craftsman, musician and sculptor. He lives a reclusive life in the rural part of Hong Kong and his art reflects his love of nature and rhythm with strong solitary sentiment. Lee's sculptures combine traditional function of the Chinese seal and the beautiful natural texture of timber wood. They are carved with precision to illustrate rivers and farmlands that surround his home. Lee Man Sang's works have the quality of a sophisticated craft though it is his profound concept and subtlety that distinguish him as a sculptor from his contemporaries.

is one of the most avant-garde multi-media artists today.  His works were recently featured at the prestigious Venice Biennale and received critical acclaim.  Leung's photographic series of the cityscapes of New York, Venice and Hong Kong used both positive and negative spaces, unique focal points and shooting angles to create abstract images of mass and void.  Leung reduces familiar landmarks into unfamiliar forms and in the process brings out unusual vista within familiar surroundings. 

Mary Has a Little Lamb
Biro, colour pencil & correction pen on paper,
136x33 cm each (set of 4)

LEUNG Joey Ka-yin (b.1976)

Joey Leung is an independent artist based in Hong Kong . She received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the Chinese University in 2000 and 2007 respectively. Leung works are widely collected and her poster works have been exhibited at The International competition Trnava Poster Triennial 2003 (Czec) and the IPT 2003 International Poster Triennial In Toyama, Japan

Mankind
Stoneware & mixed media

LI Rosanna Wei-han

Rosanna Li is well-known for her robust ceramic figurines imbued with cultural and symbolic meanings that reflect her response to current events in a social context. Her research interest ranges from Shiwan rooftop ceramic figurines for Chinese temples to tableware design. She is an Art Advisor (Hong Kong Art) of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, and a founding member and former chairperson of the Contemporary Ceramics Society (Hong Kong). She teaches in the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her work can be seen in the Hong Kong Airport and Yau Tong Station, MTR. The latter, entitled “People Passing By, People Lazing By”, is known as the largest outdoor ceramic sculptural group in Hong Kong.

Bank of China
UV print on canvas

LIM William

Lim is an avid art collector and enthusiast as well as an active participant in the local art scene. Lim's work features a series of Hong Kong cityscape photographs entitled “Aura”. With the eyes of an artist, hands of an architect, and heart of a wanderer, Lim creates works that are both nostalgic and mysterious. They possess an intriguing power that gives the buildings a life of their own, or a new life rather, as they suddenly become fresh and interesting again.

LO Yuk Yin Lucille

Lucille Lo's early artistic venture was in the Chinese ink and paper tradition. Her style derived from the Lingnan School's objective depiction and focused on multiple layering of colors. In the year 2000, Lo began her exploration in oil on canvas. With her unique visions and keen observation, Lo created a series of works featuring Hong Kong cityscapes using heavy pigments and everyday objects. The results are stunning visual and conceptual experiences with a distinct local flavor.

is one of the most important artists in Hong Kong history.  He was the main driving force in the development of modern art in the 1960's and 70's.  As founder of the influential New Ink Movement, Lu's teaching and theory successfully generated a new trend combining traditional Chinese and modern Western elements.  Lu's famous Zen painting, which embodies calligraphic and Abstract expressionist features, became an indigenous Hong Kong style and represents an artistic and theoretic solution to the rejuvenation of classical Chinese art.

MAN Fung-yi (b.1968)

Man's work demonstrates her versatility in different mediums ranging from silk, steel, copper and brass. Using her powerful sensibility and aesthetic sense, Man's works convey the idea of childhood, adulthood and motherhood, and exert both masculine and feminine strengths. Man is one of the leading woman artists in Hong Kong and her works is widely sought after.

Detail of Flying Dream III
Mixed media on canvas

Ng's paintings rest on four basic initiatives: figurative and abstract forms, tradition and modernity.  These elements have been both the creative stimulus and inherited contradiction of this artist's works.  They appear at first as traditional Chinese landscapes with apparent waterfalls and mountains, though upon closer scrutiny, the landscapes turn into pure abstract figuration that recalls the expressive style of Action Painting.  What remains unchanged is a sense of motion, the signature of Ng's art that leads his audience through different time and space.  　

Detail of A Bighorn Sheep
Chinese ink & watercolour on silk

is an expert in traditional Chinese brush on silk painting. He recently received his Master of Fine Arts degree and stunned the public with his extremely fine and meticulous paintings at the graduation exhibition.  Shieh's figures exert classical Tang dynasty spirit with their sensuous contours and refined features, yet their unconventional or at times erotic compositions shatter traditional restrictions and boundaries.

Cimex adjunctus
Ink on drafting film, 60x84 cm, 2007

SU, Angela

Angela Su is an independent artist based in Hong Kong . She graduated in 1990 from the University of Toronto and in 1994 from the Ontario College of Art, Canada. Su has held one-woman exhibition in Singapore and Hong Kong and has participated in group exhibition such as the 2 nd Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen , China and Reversing Horizons, at the Museum of Contemporary Shanghai . In her drawings and embroderies, Su combines her anatomical background with groundbreaking compositions in weaving together elements of alchemical and fantasy nature.

Porcelain Shoes
Porcelain

is a well-known ceramic sculptor and teacher in Hong Kong.  An accomplished sculptor with particular expertise in porcelain, Wong puts strong emphasis on the material's translucency and thereby expresses the delicate relationship between potency and fragility of life.  Wong's  newest works including a mixed-media series that uses the penetrating power of light to generate new and unexpected results through the porcelain surfaces.  Working with a medium that defined China's greatest antiquities, Wong strives to redefine that tradition with her unparallel skills and contemporary vision. 

Window Dream No.5
ink & collage on paper

Wucius WONG (b.1936)

Wucius Wong has been a pivotal figure in the development of Hong Kong art for the last four decades. Wong's signature style is well known - a combination of Western graphic and Chinese landscape, and he is ever changing with an exploreer's attitude, an element that makes him uniquely successful among his contemporaries. As an artist, he always strives to maintain a close relationship between his works and the time and space in which he lives.