Harmonious balance in beauty

Catherine S.J. Zhang's solo show, Ink Brush - Flowers - Photography presents 30 multimedia artworks and carves out a new creative arena with nature and flowers as her main themes. She boldly exploits the essence of traditional Chinese ink brush painting, Japanese flower installation and her passion for photography.

Zhang has been longing to create such a series. She has been a photographer for 10 years, is greatly attracted to the Ikebana flower installation of Sogetsu School and also studied traditional flowers-and-birds under the late great master Zhao Shao-ang.

"I want to explore an exciting territory of new possibility, to strike a harmonious balance in beauty while utilizing two very different media (photography and ink brush painting) that cross over the passage of time for centuries," she says.