Current student at Place des Arts (2024/2025 season)
Biography
Born in British Hong Kong, Wing Yee Wong is a Coquitlam-based illustrator, painter and potter.
Back in the early 90s, Wing was a graphic design and pottery student in the First Institute of Arts and Design in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
After dropping out of the art program in HK and immigrating to Canada, Wing sought a very different path in life.
After University (BSc at SFU) and a 25-year hiatus, Wing found her way back to arts.
Wing enjoys doodling on her iPad at home, doing plein air painting with watercolour or acrylic, and making pottery in friendly community studios.
Wing likes her art simple and bright, and she hopes her art can make everyone smile.
Artist Statement
My piece “Splosh” was started as a pure exercise to create a tall cylinder. I created the main body by hand alternating, and sploshed three thrown pieces together to achieve the desired height and shape. I hand painted the glaze: two tones for the sky and ocean; I sploshed more white and coloured glaze on top for the breeze, iceberg and debris. Splosh! A fish is hopping!
My piece “Splosh” is a small vase, for a body of ocean.
My piece “Redress Medusa” is my biggest project so far both in time and size. “Redress Medusa” was started as a one piece hand building sculpture. My idea was Medusa as a snake and her hair snakes as a village of human heads made by various sized plaster molds. Due to gravity, my Medusa collapsed during wet stage. Due to poor construction, Medusa’s original body was cracked into two pieces during glaze firing. With encouragement and great help by the awesome instructor, Medusa’s head was saved by cutting off from the cracked body, and now nesting in the new and improved body base.
It took me two 8-week sessions to accomplish this project. And the greatest part was the support and warmth I received from the studio!
Instagram: @yeemeow