Kwok Kai Yi
Kwok Kai Yi, Jackie was born in Sichuan, China in 2002 and has been living in Hong Kong since 2014. She is a painter and visual artist who works primarily with oil on canvas. Kwok currently studies Visual Art at The Hong Kong Baptist University with a bachelor’s degree. Most of her works are inspired by the feelings and experiences in her daily life and focus on depicting daily emotions and life fragments through canvas. Her paintings capture the beauty of scenery and objects that are easily overlooked in our fast-paced life in realistic style with a harmonious palette. Currently, she is exploring the imagination and beauty brought by the objects that are in an obscure perspective.
Oil on canvas
61cm x 170cm x 3.8cm
People browse countless images every day through social media in this informative highly developed era, and many interesting images that people turn a blind eye to in their daily lives are often overlooked. Plastic bags, an object that is not very environmentally friendly but often appears around us, can bring new visual experiences to the things that we are familiar with. "The Plastic Bag" depicts some fruit and vegetables packaged in a semi-transparent plastic bag, relating to the artist’s daily life experience: guessing what mom bought to go home. Broken, blurry, and twisted colours and shapes provide the audience with more space for imagination.
2022
Oil on canvas
150 x 120 cm
‘Roadside’ depicts wildflowers and grass under the sunlight. The wild grass and flowers intertwine, but shine brightly in the sunlight, which is the roadside scenery l saw on my way home in the afternoon. As I walked wearily on the road, this scenery made me feel at ease and relaxed, as well as the vitality of wildflowers and weeds.
2023
Oil on canvas
100 x 67 cm
Viewing a girl from the end of the bed, we can only see a small portion of the girl’s face, while the rest is covered by the legs and hands in the foreground. Human facial expressions are the most expressive of emotions, but in this painting, only the blurry half of the face vaguely reveals the character's emotions. Instead, the curled-up limbs indicate her fragility and helplessness.
2023
Oil on canvas
100 x 133 cm
Most of the time in my life is spent in buildings, such as studying in the classroom, resting at home, wherever I go and what I do, often within the space of the buildings, which gives me the feeling of being trapped in a limited indoor space all the time. ‘The Cage' expresses my longing for nature and an unconstrained world.