Ashley Chung
b. 1997(Hong Kong)
Ashley Chung received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019. Studying under Mr. Wang Qiu Tong, Professor Fan Di’an, and Mr. Henry Lau, Ashley has possessed to paint contemporary Chinese ink painting, principally global urban environments and cities. She used to depict cityscapes, landscapes, imaginary themes, and other categories through a range of western media until she studied traditional and contemporary chinese ink painting since her second year at university. She was honored with numerous international awards including “Best Individual on the colony” of The Small Montmartre of Bitola, Student of the year Visual Artist winner organized by The South China Morning Post, and Hong Kong Home Affairs Bureau Multi-Faceted Excellence Scholarship. She was invited to exhibit her artworks in global various countries and regions, including Beijing, Russia, London, France, Finland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Ukraine, Romania, Japan, Singapore, etc. Her works were collected by the HKSAR Government, overseas institutions, and private collections and were mainly fundraised for charity sales.
Ashley was born and raised in Hong Kong. Her works often reflect her exploration of positive meanings of life in metro-cities, discovering methods to depict urban environments with a combination of traditional Chinese ink aesthetic techniques and western art skills. She used to paint with western media, including watercolor, oil color, acrylic, charcoal, pastels, pencils, etc. But eventually, she chose the most unfamiliar media to persist during the second year of University. Studying under Mr. Wang Qiu Tong and inspired by Professor Fan Di’an, Ashley has been kept trying to learn and involve theories, spirits, strokes, and structures of traditional ink painting as well as calligraphy in her cities, although the appearance is transformed into different forms of pigment, spots, and lines. The infiltration of black and white, bright and obscure colors, expressions of "Qi"—rhythmic vitality and connotations which is what she longing for. She aspires to find a new language of cityscape and metro art as well as to preserve what ancestors had retained.
鍾凱霖（Ashley Chung）於2019年在香港中文大學獲得美術學士學位。在王秋桐先生、范迪安教授和劉志康先生的指導下學習，她專注於創作當代中國水墨畫，主要描繪全球城市環境。在大學的第二年開始，她開始學習傳統和當代中國水墨畫，透過一系列西方媒材描繪城市風景、景觀、想像主題和其他類別。她曾獲得多個國際獎項，包括比托拉小蒙馬特（The Small Montmartre of Bitola）的「殖民地最佳個人」、由《南華早報》舉辦的「年度視覺藝術家」獎以及香港政府「多元卓越獎學金」。她受邀在全球多個國家和地區展出作品，包括北京、俄羅斯、倫敦、法國、芬蘭、捷克、葡萄牙、烏克蘭、羅馬尼亞、日本、新加坡等。她的作品被香港特區政府、海外機構和私人收藏機構收藏，並主要用於慈善銷售。
鍾凱霖在香港出生和成長。她的作品常常反映她對都市生活的積極意義的探索，試圖通過結合傳統中國水墨美學技巧和西方藝術技巧來描繪城市環境。她曾經使用包括水彩、油畫、丙烯、木炭、粉彩、鉛筆等西方媒材進行繪畫。但最終，她選擇在大學的第二年使用最陌生的媒材—水墨。在王秋桐先生的指導和范迪安教授的啟發下，鍾凱霖一直努力學習和融入傳統水墨畫和書法的理論、精神、筆觸和結構，並將其融入她的城市作品中，儘管外觀轉化為不同形式的顏料、斑點和線條。黑白、明暗色彩的滲透，以及「氣」的表達——有節奏的生命力和內涵是她渴望的。她保留祖的傳統，同時渴望尋找城市風景和都市藝術的新語言。