Summer is the season of flowers. The bright summer sun shines on the blooming flowers, the gentle breeze sends forth wafts of fragrance that attracts bees and butterflies buzzing around, enabling us to catch the truth, goodness and beauty of nature., Most artists love to paint flowers. They employ different means of expression as their hearts lead them, in a realistic or abstract way, and use their brushes to capture the brilliant blossoms on canvases to demonstrate their passion for life and their zeal for living life., The summer flowers are a symbol of life that allows us to feel the joy of being alive and the meaning of life! Artists paint flowers in full bloom to express the vitality of life. We hope the floral paintings will bring you joy, hope and wonderful experience; and let most of us living in high-rise buildings experience the beauty of nature.

夏天是花的季節，璀璨的陽光照耀在綻放的花卉上，空氣混著花香，蜂蝶繞花飛舞，讓人感受到大自然的真、善、美。, 從古至今，不少藝術家喜愛畫花，他們以不同的表達方式，或寫實、或抽象，把花卉最燦爛綻放的片刻活現於畫面上。每位藝術家各自以真誠的心捕捉不同花卉的性格，以畫筆展現它們的嬌姿美態，亦展示自己對生命的熱情及生活的熱愛。 , 夏天的「花」，是生命的象徵，讓我們感受到生存的快樂，生命的意義！藝術家以畫表達百花盛放的生命力；我們希望大家在欣賞美麗作品之餘，能為您的生活注入更多美好、美麗、美妙的事物，也讓置身高樓大廈的我們，都能感受到大自然的美。

A Hong Kong born Chinese, Eliza received her tertiary education in England. She has been painting since 1998, the year when she made a career turn from management consultancy to art. Having an upbringing in a traditional Chinese family, and a strong exposure to the western cultures throughout her education and career development, her contemporary art carries a blend of eastern and western cultural influence.

In summer 2011, she obtained an MFA in Painting with the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Through delving into the subject of abstract painting during her years of study, the bodies of her art have embraced a major shift from representational roots to pure conceptual compositions and abstract expressionism.

Eliza has had solo shows in Hong Kong. She also exhibits annually with Artists Abroad, an art group composed of some international artists in which she has been the Treasurer and board member since 2002. She actively participates in various local community projects and artist-in-residency programs. Last year with the “Lines” series of her works, she was shortlisted for a New York based AIR program organized by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. A piece from the “Bubbles” series also got selected into the juried competition and exhibition by Hong Kong Oil Painting Research Society. She has done commissioned work for private collectors as well as corporations. Eliza currently lives in Hong Kong where she teaches private lessons in art and painting.

鄭慧華生於香港，在英國接受高等教育。鄭氏於1998年從管理顧問轉投藝術，自始開展其繪畫創作的生涯。她成長於一個傳統的中國人家庭，又因在海外接受教育和發展事業而深受西方文化薰陶，因此其當代藝術作品也揉合了東西文化色彩。

鄭氏在美國三藩市藝術大學主修繪畫，於2011年夏天取得美術系碩士學位。她在大學期間一直潛心鑽研抽象畫派，其創作由寫實擴展至抽象，作品以純意念建構和抽象派表現主義為主。

鄭氏曾多次在香港舉行個人畫展，自2002年起積極參與香港海外藝術家會（Artists Abroad）的年展。Artists Abroad 是由一些國際性藝術家組成的藝術團體，鄭氏現為該會的司庫及董事會成員。她經常積極參與各種社區藝術活動及藝術工作者駐場計劃。她去年憑著「繩子」(“Lines”)系列作品獲香港藝術發展局列入一項紐約藝術工作者駐場計劃的候選名單。其另一幅來自「泡影」(“Bubbles”)系列的作品也獲得香港油畫研究會比賽的評審選為入圍作品，並作公開展覽。她曾受委託為很多藝術收藏家和私人機構工作，現居於香港，從事私人教授藝術繪畫的工作。

夏天是花的季節，璀璨的陽光照耀在綻放的花卉上，空氣混著花香，蜂蝶繞花飛舞，讓人感受到大自然的真、善、美。, 從古至今，不少藝術家喜愛畫花，他們以不同的表達方式，或寫實、或抽象，把花卉最燦爛綻放的片刻活現於畫面上。每位藝術家各自以真誠的心捕捉不同花卉的性格，以畫筆展現它們的嬌姿美態，亦展示自己對生命的熱情及生活的熱愛。 , 夏天的「花」，是生命的象徵，讓我們感受到生存的快樂，生命的意義！藝術家以畫表達百花盛放的生命力；我們希望大家在欣賞美麗作品之餘，能為您的生活注入更多美好、美麗、美妙的事物，也讓置身高樓大廈的我們，都能感受到大自然的美。

Abstract art is a branch of art emerged in the West in the 1910s that broke from the tradition that a painting had to represent something. Before that, realist and impressionist artists painted objects and landscape exactly as how they saw them. In abstract art, artists present their subjective experience and imagination of the objects and scenery they painted. Relative image of the scenery or object no longer exists. Viewers have to use their imagination and senses to explore and interprete the works or art.Most abstract paintings represent things that are not visual. Points, lines, surfaces, forms, colour and texture become the elements that convey the artists’ emotion and spiritual experiences. To understand abstract art, you need to have keen senses and open imagination. Allowing your senses to be linked up with your sight and wandering around the painting and see where it takes you. Abstract art should be admired in the same way as that of listening to music. Let the elements of the painting flow through your senses the way the notes of music wash over your soul. One of the beautiful things about abstract art is its opening to interpretation. Abstract art gives you freedom to explore the artwork and assign your own meaning to the piece. This personalised process enriches a viewer’s experience of an artwork.

Some people may think that abstract art is easy. However, painting or creating abstract arts is not as simple as they look. It demands great drawing skill and a heightened sensitivity for composition and colours. For a piece of abstract art to have significance for anyone other than the artist, it needs to have something that can retain the viewer’s attention, draw them in, keep them looking, and generate an emotional response. Let’s admire abstract art with an open mind and an open heart – let imagination leads.

抽象畫是一九一O年代開始在西方興起的一種破舊立新的繪畫形式，寫實或印象畫家會將他們所感受到景或物的美態描繪出來，和觀眾分享他所見識到的景或物。但在抽象畫裡，畫家把他對景或物的主觀體驗與想象呈現出來讓觀者自己去感受，景或物的具體形象不復存在，讓欣賞者憑各自的想像力詮釋作品。
在大部份抽象畫裡都找不到可以辨識的元素；點、線、面、體、色彩及質感成了抽象畫表達藝術家感覺及觸角的主要元素。因此欣賞抽象藝術，觀眾必須靠自己敏銳的五官與想像來感受藝術家所表達的理念，用眼睛把其他感官連結起來，讓視覺、聽覺、觸覺聯合一起來感覺，你可以從畫感應到剛、柔、軟、硬及喜、怒、哀、樂。欣賞抽象畫，應如欣賞交響樂般，讓畫面構圖如音符般浸透你的心靈。抽象藝術其中一樣好處是任何人都可憑自我感受詮釋作品，每個人可自由探索藝術作品和決定自己的釋義。這強烈個人化的過程，豐富了觀眾對藝術品的體驗。

有人會認為抽象畫如小孩塗鴉，其實抽象畫並非如表面所見般容易。抽象畫家除了需要有精湛的繪畫技巧外，亦需要對構圖和色彩有高度的敏感性。一件抽象藝術品要引發人的共鳴，需要具有一個或多個有力的元素，吸引觀者的注意力，讓人仔細欣賞，尋找作品傳達的意義。讓我們敞開心靈及胸懷，釋放想像力欣賞抽象藝術品，領會藝術家境生象外的世界。

Born in 1955 in Guangzhou, China, Huang He received a bachelor degree of fine art from the Sculpture Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1982. He went to Australia for further study in 1988 and was widely involved in oil painting. His pieces such as “Meditation” earned him the special prize of the National Sculpture Exhibition in Australia. In 2000, he returned to his homeland where he was appointed a visiting professor at the Institute of Visual Art at Fudan University, Shanghai and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He was involved in creating and planning a wide collection of public sculptures and exhibitions. His sculpture work “The 78th” was selected to the National Arts Exhibition and became the permanent collection of Guangdong Museum of Art.

Majoring in sculpture making, sketching is Huang’s sources of inspiration. He enjoys sketching on streets or in public transportation in order to maintain his acute sensitivity to daily life. Sketching also induces his passion for painting. Huang’s paintings bear the characteristics of his sculpture works; the powerful strokes represent self-confidence, strength and passion. Huang’s bold and unrestrained drawing technique is well received.

Huang has the valuable noble quality of an artist, wholehearted persistence and indulgence in pursuit of arts. Even at middle ages, Huang still has such admirably poetic, passionate and pure ideals.

“Sketching China” includes pieces of Huang He’s oil paintings in recent years. Most of these works are on-site sketching with focus on countryside, metropolitan, flora and still objects and portrait, etc. As an adventurer of the life journey, Huang expresses his unique experiences in every day life with strokes and sculpture knife. The exhibition will also display some pieces of Huang’s sculpture work, enabling visitors to appreciate both his paintings and sculptures.

黃河1955年生於廣州，1978-1982就讀於廣州美術學院雕塑系，獲學士學位；1982-1988任廣州美術學院雕塑系講師。1988年赴澳洲留學深造，並拓展油畫創作；他的雕塑作品《靜思》獲全澳洲雕塑大展特等獎。2000年回國受聘于上海復旦大學視覺學院客座教授，廣州美術學院客座教授，期間並參與各種大型城市雕塑策劃和創作，雕塑作品《78届》入選全國美展並被廣東美術館永久收藏。

雕塑系出身的黃河，鍾情寫生。寫生是他雕塑靈感的來源，為保持着對事物敏銳的感覺，他享往街頭寫生或在公共交通工具上速寫；寫生造就了他對繪畫的激情。黃河的油畫，有著他雕塑的特色，具有塊面感和力量感；大刀濶斧的畫工，洋溢著無比的自信和激情，充滿活力，教人振奮佩服。

黃河擁有作為藝術家最寶貴的情操，堅持着純真的藝術追求，為藝術沉迷和忘我。在觸動他感覺的對象面前，他激情澎湃，廢寢忘食，工作狀態近乎痴迷。難得的是，人到中年，依然擁有如此詩意、如此熾熱、如此瀟灑的理想；黃河擁有讓人羨慕的執著和激情。

「寫生中國」是黃河近幾年的油畫寫生作品。這些作品多為即景寫生，題材包括山鄉小鎮、繁華都會、花卉靜物、人物等。在這些作品中，黃河以行者的目光，探索並記錄人生旅途的風景及事物；以筆及刀，表現了他對於平凡景物中領會到的不平凡。展覽亦同時展出黃河的一些雕塑作品，讓觀衆能欣賞到雕塑家手下油畫創作的風采。