Lai Cheuk Wah Sarah
Chinese painter
Lai Cheuk Wah Sarah (born 1983) is a painter from Hong Kong. Her paintings are often sceneries and objects recreated by a signature pale palette.
Background
Lai graduated from the Fine Arts Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007. In the same year, she received the Ramon Woon Creative Prize, Grotto Fine Arts Ltd.'s Creative Award and Cheng's Fine Arts Award in Western Painting.
Lai is also a finalist of the 2010 Sovereign Asian Art Prize.
Style
Lai's motif is the mundane. She describes her works as being based on things that are “ordinary...and missed easily.” Her works are about diverse subjects, ranging from the Moon and the sea to swimming pools, street corners and water towers.
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