Leung Kui Ting 梁巨廷

Born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, Leung Kui Ting does not have any formal training in traditional ink painting. He moved to Hong Kong in 1948 and studied painting under Lui Shou-kwan in 1964 when he was a carpenter. Later, he studied graphic design under Wucius Wong and has held various teaching positions. In the 1990s he exhibited on the mainland and traveled there quite a bit. A figure in Hong Kong 's New Ink Painting movement that grew up around Lui Shou-kwan, Leung has experimented with many different styles that synthesize classical ink painting with modern western art. However, the rocks, trees, and mountains that have long been the subject of the literati painters over the past 600 years have remained his principal interest. In his seriesof painting entitled Zan Zak Zen, he portrays fantastically shaped Chinese scholar's rocks as if they were cliffs and mountains. In another series entitled Words from Stones, magically floating mountains, again evoking scholar's rocks, are juxtaposed with finely drawn diagrams and graphs, thus creating a world of tension, as well as resolution, between old and new.