PATRICK LIN WAH WONG
(b. 1966, April 18th Dumfries, Scotland)
Summer Fruits
Oil on paper
66 cms x 58 cms (image)
92.5 cms x 88.5 cms (white framed and glazed)
Signed with artists monogram lower left
Provenance:
Exhibited Moya Bucknall Fine Art
Private Collection United Kingdom
[with] Contemporary Art Management
 
Educated :
1987 - 1988 Sutton Coldfield College of Further Education
1988 - 1991 Wolverhampton University, BA Hons Fine Arts
 
Wong is strongly influenced by American Abstract expressionist artists such as William De Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Pollock, etc. "I found these fabulous masters gave me a direction full of fresh air and a sense of danger. I was going wild with my early work…" - Patrick Wong.
 
"Being bought up in the Far East , my early childhood had the advantage of experiencing the Eastern philosophies and colours. A lot of my paintings started from stories I heard when I was a child; fairy tales and ghostly stories. I often thank my parents for keeping me in the Far East. I mastered a combination of East meets West. i.e. Chinese Calligraphy, Eastern colour together with the freedom of Western Expressionism. What a deadly yet sexy combination!” - Patrick Wong.
 
"Buddhism was introduced to me by my wife to calm my high blood pressure problem. The more I learned about the origins of Buddhism and the ways of Buddhism, the more I found it extremely fascinating and inspiring. It gave me a sense of peacefulness and stillness. Often when I was painting I used the techniques I learned from Buddhism, such as meditation: to take me into a world of emptiness where I can see nothing but the subject matter that I was painting." - Patrick Wong.
 
Exhibited :
Degree Show, Wolverhampton
Degree Show, St James House, London
Fresh Arts Exhibition, Islington, London
Degree Show, 3 Polytechnics, West Midlands
Birmingham Arts Trust, MAC, Birmingham
Under One Roof, Old Union Mill, Birmingham
Annual Christmas Exhibition, Midland Contemporary
Architects Week, Moya Bucknall Design, Solihull
Dudley Museum and Art Gallery 
Abstracts Exhibition, Moya Bucknall Design
Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Eastleigh, Hampshire
41st Annual Open Exhibition, Dudley Museum and Art Gallery, Winner of the E J Thompson prize
Moya Bucknall Fine Art Annual Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Harveys Cafe, Fulham Road, London
Mac, Birmingham

Collections : 
Touche Ross, Birmingham Office
Dudley Museum and Art Gallery
J Johnson Trust, Solihull
Albert E Sharp, Birmingham
Raybould Machine Tools Ltd., Birmingham
Forms UK Limited, Solihull
J J Gallagher, Warwick
GVA Grimley, Birmingham
Halligan Associates, Birmingham
Rydale, Newport, Wales
Private collections world wide
Commissioned by Birmingham College of Food and Tourism 
 
Fine Art Viewings and Global Shipping by arrangement.

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