Artist’s background

Teresa was born and raised in Hong Kong and later studied in US for her University.

She has been in legal and compliance field in international banking for years. She has experimented the free flow art training project in the Fridge Club prior to her departure in Hong Kong.

She has travelled to lots of the Asian countries for work before resuming her passion in painting during the Covid 19. Painting is the lost passion that Teresa reconnects to the inner self (which she always named it as ‘Little Girl’.

Teresa is a self-taught, expressionist artist, whose creative production revolves around classic figurative painting which are full of sensual energy. Chinese artist，Teresa Chan, uses oil paint to speak the thoughts which composites of various psychological states of mind in different ways. For her, art is the only language through which she can express her most true and honest self. Teresa ‘s painting is a fine mixture of emotional and atmospheric which represents most of the realistic representation of her dreams. Her dreamlike world finds light – fragile, sensual yet beautiful – in the depths of darkness, harmonizing the inner and the outer, the solid and the surreal. Most heavily influenced by the aesthetic beauty of human contour, Teresa likes mixing sensual and beauty in her figurative painting . She asserts that art’s potential is not just to create, but to reflect the most of human nature which could be nihilistic or narcissistic . The juxtapositions and twisted figures in her artworks is the essence of mind illusion. She describes her work as ‘contemporary expressionist’ artist with a twist of sensual emotions.

Teresa is also a devoted contemporary dancer who she sees art in pure form should be unconventional with a combination of techniques expressed in a fluid manner.