PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Amsterdam

Freshness, vitality and brilliant color characterize Walasse Ting's depictions of women, flowers, birds and animals executed in a powerful and highly individualistic style. Ting, also known as "The Flower Pirate", spent his whole life exploring the beauty expressed in the nudity of women. He was constantly in a pursuit for a new language for expression, while insisting on the same theme throughout his life, at the same time requiring to be real to himself. Every woman shows a beauty of her own, and under the contrast of the parrots and the flowers presents distinct bright layers of beauty. Ting said, "Before I paint I am a man, after I paint I am a woman." Ting used his male strength to depict female softness; he abandoned secular binding, and revealed the true self in the blossom.

The artist once said, "It doesn't matter that I see beautiful women and fresh flowers. They both make me empty and sensitive. They make me fresh, make me different, make me new born.I use many, many colors. Make my energy and love explode on the canvas. I have painted pictures all my life, for 50 years. I only want to express freshness. From beauty to love to fresh. Like a newborn spring." Ting's paintings are reflection of his personality as well as his philosophy of life. It is fresh, passionate, beautiful, timeless, vibrant, and full of love and affection.