For Yuk Kan, creating ceramics and drawings are like writing poetry. Her love for literature and poetry are combined and integrated into her porcelain as well as in her drawing on paper. She describes her work thus: ‘It is the excitement of the exploration and to encounter the unexpected that inspire me the most. A gentle push, a tender touch, even a thin line in a breeze, the objects capture the movement and poetry takes shape in clay.’ One can trace back to her Chinese background through her abstract drawing and painting. Her passion in Chinese calligraphy is one of her sources of inspiration. Very often she uses her intuition to mark on the soft surface, every line and space are a search within, a composition of poetry, a magical transformation of the human emotions.

For this exhibition she creates new porcelain works which are inspired by poetry, architecture and the search of her inner peace. The colours are carefully chosen to create a balanced character between and within each work. She first draws and paints on paper with coloured porcelain slip and then directly prints them on the thinly formed vessel. This monoprint graphic technique gives each work a unique character which can’t be repeated. After biscuit firing, she applies more drawings and colours on the surface to create further depth before the final firing of 1260 C in an electric kiln. The result is a 3-dimensional painting on porcelain.

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• Connaissance des Arts