Irene Chou

In the realm of New Ink Painting, Irene Chou’s

art represents the feminine (chun yin)

principle that has no commerce with the

ideology of destruction. Chou breaks away

from the paths followed by Wucius Wong and

Liu Guosong to open up an entirely new

universe. Although, like Liu, she deals with

cosmic themes, Chou’s gaze reveals a cosmos

of conception, birth and reproduction: the life-

energy of nature. She experiences landscape

as beginning in the physical body, and uses the

imagery of the interior body to manifest the

landscape form. From early on, she had

evoked the ovarian channel, into which small

cell-like pellets appear to transform into

stellar bodies. Chou uses bold, sweeping

brushstrokes to delineate her universe, which

she then develops into constellations and

evolving galaxies.