"Hong Kong Paintings in Sai Yuen Lane" invited a diverse range of Hong Kong artists to exhibit their works, aiming to showcase the breadth and depth of Hong Kong's artistic landscape and reflect the diverse styles and perspectives of local artistic talent. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and we extend our heartfelt thanks to the artists for their enthusiastic support.

The exhibition features over 130 outstanding works by 92 artists and is presented in two phases. The first phase features 66 works by 44 artists, including ink, acrylic, charcoal, and mineral pigments paintings. The second phase showcases 66 works by 48 artists, including oil, watercolour, pastel, and marker pen drawings. All the works are recent creations from the past two years by the participating artists.

We aspire for Sai Yuen Lane to represent the museum. Through tireless dedication, we aim to integrate with the community to establish a vibrant space for cultural and artistic exchange.

Venue address: G/F & 1/F, Artisan House, 1 Sai Yuen Lane, Sai Ying Pun

The Sun Museum collaborates with the Hong Kong Artists Society to present its latest exhibition “Peaceful Colour” from 20th October to 16th December, 2023. The exhibition features 140 paintings by 70 members of the Society, depicting the intriguing and distinctive characteristics of living in Hong Kong. These works cover various art mediums such as oil, ink, watercolour, gouache, pen and pencil.

The exhibition comprises mainly landscape paintings, along with portraits and still-life paintings. Subject matters include the serene and tranquil lifestyle of the fishing village Tai O; Ngong Ping cable car; Yau Ma Tei fruit market in the early morning; neon lights of Hong Kong; and the bustling life of the city.

Hong Kong is renowned as a paradise for food lovers. The paintings also capture Hong Kong lifestyle through popular local delicacies such as pineapple buns, milk tea, egg waffles, and rice pudding, reflecting Hong Kong people’s wishes for peaceful and abundant life. 

Venue address: 4/F, SML Tower, 165 Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon

Sun Museum will concurrently present two exhibitions, "Colour by Wong May Lee" and "Colour by Lam Yi Kei". Showcasing 85 ceramic creations and precious fragments collected at ancient kiln sites by Hong Kong female ceramics artist Wong May Lee, as well as 30 oil paintings by artist Lam Yi Kei.

Wong May Lee has been engaged in ceramic art since the 1970s, excelling in pottery from making wheel-thrown vessels to handbuilt clay sculptures. She passionately dives into the world of pottery and explores a range of different pottery-making and firing techniques, from creating the splendid reduction effects in raku firing, experimenting with the natural ash glaze in woodfiring, to appreciating the elegant and rustic Yixing‘s zisha (purple clay) pieces. She has even visited the renowned Longquan kiln in Zhejiang and Cizhou kiln in Hebei, learning about the production techniques from local scholars and ceramics masters. She succeeds in reviving the enchanting traditional colours of ancient Chinese celadon, such as fen qing (powder blue), mei zi qing (plum green), zi kou (purple rim) and tie zu (iron-rust-colour foot). These are remarkable archievement.

Lam Yi Kei's works primarily focus on landscapes and figures, with themes revolving around people and objects related to his personal experiences, capturing these familiar life records with oil paints. Lam has travelled to famous museums across Europe, learning from the masterpieces and enriching his artistic life through these journeys. He excels at capturing the trajectory, angle, and intensity of light, manipulating light and shadow to create exceptional ambience. His works exude the qualities of Western Classical and Impressionist paintings, while possessing a style of his own.

Venue Address: 4/F, SML Building, 165 Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon

In ancient times, Chinese silk became a supreme luxury in the western world. Today, textile from Hong Kong have also penetrated the European market. Between the late 20th century and early millennium, textile industry in Hong Kong was flourished and became important among international trade. The success of Hong Kong International Group (HKI) is an outstanding example. Their development over the past 50 years reflected the rise and fall of Hong Kong textile industry as well as the innovative spirit of Hong Kong people.

HKI’s knitted products are directly exported to European, American and Japanese markets, with its honing skills in fusing western designs with Chinese elements. For instance, their graphics on knitwear resemble Chinese embroidery pattern, sewed with sequins and transformed into three-dimensional decorations; refashion the cutting design from slim-fit to loose-fit, with Chinese traditional overlapping panels that covered from left over right or right over left. When the world’s interest toward Chinese textile waned, HKI shifted the focus towards manufacturing technologies and bringing about the invention of washable silk, maintained its competitive edge in the international market.

This exhibition not only showcases iconic products from the 10 brands of HKI, but also displays rare textile machinery that produced these fabulous pieces. They reveal an East-West artistic exchange in a form that are both classic and fashionable.

Venue address: 4th Floor, SML Tower, 165 Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon,

Sun Museum is proud to present its latest exhibition “Duet of Flowers and Birds: Paintings by Chow Kunglei”, featuring the works of Chow Kung Lei, a Hong Kong ink painter and art educator. The exhibition will be running from January 12—April 6 2023.

Chow Kunglei graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Art in 1926. He was the pupil of the famous Russian painter Victor Stepanowitsch Podgoursky. Majoring in Western painting, he excelled in sketch portraits. On the other hand, Chow studied under famous Chinese painters Wu Changshuo and Li Teifu, and was much influenced by their painting styles. Chow developed his own trend by integrating Chinese and Western painting techniques. With lines and strokes taken from Chinese paintings, and the alternate use of dark and light colours from Western art, Chow created pieces with quick and unrestrained brushstrokes, with a sense of vitality.  

With his masterful incorporation of techniques drawn from the crux of different schools of art, Chow’s artistic achievements brought great delight to Wu Changshuo, leading Wu to see Chow as his well-qualified successor. Chow and Zhang Daqian became friends despite their age differences. After a painting session between the two, even Zhang exclaimed, “You are able to reproduce subjects which I am skilled in drawing with an excellent likeness; and yet I am unable to master figure drawings, which are clearly your forte.”

Venue address: 4/F, SML Building, 165 Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon

Sun Museum will present 80 works created by renowned oil painter Chan Chiu Lung. This exhibition entitled “The Light of Colours by Chan Chiu Lung” will take place from 27 April 2022 to 23 July 2022.

Chan Chui Lung is among the few classical realistic oil painters in Hong Kong and is famous for his portraits of Chinese and foreign people. He started painting at the age of 16, and studied art under Liu Xingyuan from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Inspired by the works of masters when traveling in Europe, Chan combined Russian Realism and Impressionism on canvas.

This exhibition is a highlight of his works in the previous 18 years since 2003, which serves as a significant record in his creative career. This selection of oil paintings is divided into four categories: portrait, nude, still life and landscape.

Venue address: 4th Floor, SML Tower, 165 Hoi Bun Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon