Stephen Man-Fai Cheng who is an award-winning artist and has been a

professional artist for thirty years lives in Vancouver. He graduated

from the Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts and studied under the

direction of some of China's most famous painters and art professors.

Chen Shou-Soo, who was famous in Italy and China, was his favourite

teacher. His instructors taught him to observe life and to try to capture

the essence of the subject at hand. His early paintings reflect these ideas

in their treatment of still life and images from life. While a teen, he

enhanced his grasp of both figure and form by making thousands of

impromptu sketches. These studies accelerated his tremendous talent

for the creation of art. His past endeavours reflect the diversity of his

talents in pursuits, such as oil portraits, murals, set designs for both

theatre and opera and also teaching painting. His works have been in

numerous exhibitions and his achievements have been widely reported

by newspaper, television and magazine in Hong Kong.

Artistic Statement:

It's like a new discovery whenever I start a painting. I always try to

make each of the paintings have its own personality and soul by

employing a variety of techniques.

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