The Hong Kong-born artist Kristy Chan now lives and works in London, creating artworks that traverse figuration and abstraction, resulting in energetic, intuitive, and autobiographical compositions. Departing from surreal and bewildering moments in contemporary life, Chan describes her works as 'stolen realities.' Primarily employing densely applied oil and oil stick, her paintings serve as visual archives of intense personal interactions amid the transient dynamism of the city of London where she is based. Her method of approaching each work, she says, is ‘to see it as a person’, forming a relationship that is fraught and unpredictable but which ultimately balances love alongside frustration.

Photo portrait of Kristy Chan, courtesy of the artist.