At the age of 14, Fong Chung-Ray was obliged to leave his family and go into exile, due to the Chinese Civil War when he enlisted as a lieutenant in the navy.
Fong Chung-Ray then invented a brush made from palm tree fibres, which added a highly personal touch and a rougher quality to his sweeps of colour.
Initially, his work focused on abstract landscapes, but he gradually moved away from this movement when he turned to Buddhist spirituality.
This fresh source of inspiration resulted in a more abstract approach, related to temporality, which he studied in the sacred texts.
By going beyond the formal representation of nature, Fong Chung-Ray has revived the spiritual essence that emanates from the paintings by the great old masters and invites the viewer to contemplate.