Yang Chihung was born in Taiwan in 1947. He collaborated with the wellknown Ruth Siegel Gallery in New York in the 1980s, and in the 1990s his work was exhibited by a number of leading galleries. Following in the footsteps of noted Chinese abstract expressionists such as Zao Wou-ki and Chu Teh-chun, Yang established himself as a highly-regarded exponent of abstract painting, one who works constantly to refine his artistic sensibility and his emotional perceptiveness so as to be able to skillfully transform the concrete into the abstract. This particular work, "Bubbling Spring," represents a fusion of the brushwork techniques of traditional Chinese inkbrush painting and Western art's emphasis on color and light. Working within a two-dimensional space, Yang is able to achieve the visualization of both time and speed, bringing across the power and beauty of a spring bursting forth into a mountain stream and breaking up the ice that has formed on the river-surface. While deriving his creative inspiration from Asia, during his years in the West, Yang was led to take up abstract art by his fascination with life in all its aspects, and particularly the natural cycle - the process of birth, life and death, and the passage of time. Much of the impact of this painting derives from the influence of East Asian mysticism. Yang's recent works, such as this one, display an impressive maturity in the way Chinese and Western elements are blended together.