Background
Chan was born in 1952,in Hong Kong.
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Chen Chengqiu
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Education
In 1977, He studied at Hong Kong Baptist University — "the Ministry of Education Diploma" which focuses on landscape painting.
Career
Chan is the Chairman of the Modern Chinese Ink Painting Association, the Vice-chairman of the Chinese Chen Clan Association of Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings, as well as the Honorary Advisor of Hong Kong Contemporary Innovative Ink Painting Association. Six exhibitions and various group exhibitions was held by Chan in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and foreign countries. He was active in Hong Kong between 1975-1978.
He was studying at The Grantham College of Education, Specializing in Fine Arts and received a Teacher Education certificate in 1975.
He has also started his first exhibition namely "Hong Kong Diploma of Fine Arts Exhibition" at Hong Kong City Hall. Chan advanced his studies in the Department of Fine Arts in Chinese University of Hong Kong—Specialized in the Diploma of "Modern Ink" in 1978.
Meanwhile, he held a Modern Ink Painting Exhibition Association at Hong Kong City Hall. Being Honorary Advisor of Hong Kong Contemporary Innovative Ink Painting Association (當代創意水墨畫會), Chan agrees that a painting association can help encouraging and forcing each member to work better.
Also providing an effective platform for a group of painting enthusiasts to organize exhibitions, showing their personal experiences.
When creating ink-painted artwork, Chan aims at combining elements from western and also from Eastern due to his Western art knowledge obtained from art education and his enthusiasm towards Chinese culture. Enlightened by LIU Kuo-sung, former supervisor of the Department of Fine Arts in Chinese University of Hong Kong, he started to make changes to the dull image of traditional Chinese ink painting by adding some contemporary elements to his artwork.
