Zhuang Hong Yi
Multiple Works
Multicolour flower, 2013
Sichuan, china
rice paper, acrylic paint,
varnish on canvas
70 x 90 cm
Zhuang Hong Yi’s Multicolour Flower is a luminous celebration of nature’s excess - unapologetically bright, obsessively crafted, and impossible to ignore. Drawing from traditional Chinese techniques, Zhuang transforms delicate rice paper into sculptural blooms, each one hand-painted, folded, and coaxed into place with near-meditative focus. Up close, it’s all detail and discipline; from a distance, it’s a wave of colour that seems to breathe. Every petal catches the light differently, creating a surface that flickers and shifts as you move - like a flowerbed with secrets.
This isn’t just a painting. It’s a hybrid form, somewhere between textile, topography, and technicolour daydream. The materials are humble, but the effect is extravagant: a riot of texture and pigment, held in perfect tension. Zhuang’s work is rooted in ritual but flirts with spectacle - and Multicolour Flower makes no attempt to be subtle. It’s beauty dialled up. A garden gone rogue. A reminder that joy, when meticulously constructed, can feel like a quiet kind of rebellion.
flowers, 013
Sichuan, china
rice paper, acrylic paint,
varnish on canvas
Zhuang Hong Yi’s Flowers are sculptural paintings that blur the line between object and image. Composed of meticulously hand-folded rice paper petals, each work bursts from the canvas in a tactile, vibrant bloom. Layers of acrylic paint shift in tone and colour, creating a sense of movement and transformation as light and perspective change.
The artist’s practice bridges cultural traditions, merging the delicacy of Chinese craftsmanship with the expressive dynamism of Western abstraction. Rice paper - steeped in heritage - meets bold contemporary colour, resulting in works that feel both grounded and transcendent. This duality speaks to a deep reverence for nature, beauty, and the ever-shifting qualities of time.
Zhuang’s Flowers are not mere representations of nature - they are living fields of colour and emotion, designed to evolve with the viewer’s gaze and mood. These are works to be felt as much as seen.