I pursue disciplined compositions and distinctive layers in my paintings, deliberately leaving large piece of void, much like having a courtyard in architectural context. It is a visual arrangement and a spiritual retreat, a void to leave viewers with borderless freedom for monologue.

My paintings may appear to resemble a particular mountain or sea, but my content does not derive from any actual scenery. I like to make use of an open scenery to create a space, allowing the feelings a scenery offers me to portray a utopia I always long for – to represent Hong Kong, which I was born and raised in, as a nature of poignant mountain ranges and flocking islands which can not be restored in reality.

The implications of my selected colors sometimes depict Hong Kong islands in swaddling mists, sometimes represent the delicate and simplicity of Song Dynasty ceramics. They all represent my strong feelings toward this place in a period before it is polluted. Through overlapping brush strokes, especially the density, gloomy, grandeur and gasp created by the balancing of solid and void, my romantic senses for pursuing the ideal can be realized.

——Fung Wing Kee Raymond