Fuen Chin
The artworks featured above, Hypermorph Garden 4.0, is a series of paintings featuring the floral, fauna and historical narratives of the mangrove forest at Jetty Semeling, Kedah State in Malaysia. The forest has splendid salt-tolerant trees. It provides a buffer zone to protect the land from wind and wave damage.The series has 15 pieces of mixed media paintings, which the content on each canvas is interconnected to each other, to elaborate a comprehensive scene around the mangrove forest. Each canvas is W122 x H152.5cm, the series has 15 pieces which they make the interconnected length to become 1,830cm.
Virtual Tour of the project is available at the artist's website - https://fuenchin.com and original paintings for sale at Saatchi Art
More about the artist:
Fuen Chin grew up in the small town of Sungai Petani in Kedah, Malaysia. Most of the paintings she creates are inspired by horticulture and are a nostalgic reflection of her childhood spent in a Chinese herbal shop.
She is a self-taught artist and graduate of the Royal College of Art, where she studied a fine art research degree.
She installed a Chinese ink painting at the entrance corridor of Jay Mews, a quaint cobbled road in Westminster City Council’s Knightsbridge Conservation Area. The painting was produced on an optical canvas and depicted a pictographic transformation of a Chinese character. The panel of judges gave this feedback for her work: “We very much enjoyed your proposal and presentation and thought there were a lot of interesting possibilities that may emerge from your works.” Their comments encouraged her to continue developing her calligraphic paintings by combining the use of Chinese ink with non-traditional contexts.
Her recent events include, ‘Calligraphic Floral Paintings’ series at Vintners Place, London in 2019 and ‘Hypermorph Garden 2.0 Virtual Exhibition’ funded by CENDANA Malaysia in 2020.
