HENRY WO YUE-KEE
 

A subtle fusing of influences drawn from the East and the West softly permeates Wo paintings. He combines his strong heritage of Chinese brushwork and principles with his free translucent washes, punctuated with delicate linear accents and birds, fish and flowers. Ethereal light bathes his pictures and gives his work a quivering life. A native of China, who studied art at his early years in China and Hong Kong with Prof. Chao Shao-An. He migrated into the United States and settled in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and five children in 1975. His paintings have been exhibited in Canada, Australia, and throughout the Orient and the United States.

Wo is an admirer of nature. His paintings are the result of his effort to share with others the moments of joy, which he has experienced in his contact with the myriad phenomena of nature. His mastery of the brush and paint has enabled him to express freely the poetic mood of the beautiful things he encountered and the untrammeled spirit of the artist himself through the depiction of the living creatures, objects and scenes in nature. Among the more familiar themes of his paintings are birds, flowers, landscapes, plants and animals as well as their combinations. The dexterity of Wo's brush has the power of that magic touch which turns these common themes in the material world into symbols of happiness, friendliness, peace, gentleness, tranquillity, harmony and other good qualities of nature. Every painting of Wo is a poem in praise of nature. While the poet glorified nature in words, Wo praises the goodness of nature in paint.

C. C. Wang