 Introduction
 Wai
Ming's original oil paintings and fine art reproductions are admired and
collected by people throughout the world.
Seldom has the impact
of an artist been so immediate as that of Wai Ming on his arrival in San
Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. His artistic sensitivity is combined
with a startling realism that has caught the attention of the public. His
four paintings that he displayed at Swanson
Art Gallery in San Francisco for the first time in 1975 were all sold
within the first day. Not only has the demand for his work grown steadily,
but he is acknowledged by many as one of the Bay Area's leading artist.
Wai Ming was born in
Canton in 1938, the son of a school master with nine children. Extremely
poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships.
There, Wai Ming developed his drawing techniques without any art education
and began painting what he saw.
Though self-taught, Wai
Ming paints with a rare professionalism which makes an important social
statement.
Here in
1957, at a Hong Kong fisherman village, Wai Ming sketches the
village. |
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