Born in Hong Kong in 1947, Eddie Lui Fung-ngar was educated in art and design at the University of Hong Kong before winning the Urban Council Fine Arts Award in 1981. For the past twenty years, Lui held numerous important posts in art education and curatorship and, in 1997, he was given the Visual Arts Achievement Award by the Hong Kong Visual Arts Society. The distinctive style of Lui's painting and sculpture derives from the concept of birth and rebirth as mother nature unfolds. Using the floral and natural world as central themes, Lui's abstract and colorful compositions concern nothing but the cycles of life, its beginning, maturity and end.

(Background: Blue Pond and Winter Days, ink, mixed media & paper on linen, 143x75cm, 2001)