Calla Lily 馬蹄蓮

Calla Lily
2003 / Total: 9 pieces / Not exhibited except the piece dedicated to the medical workers

This is the only portfolio of flowers I have done so far. In fact, I started with birds and flowers while learning Chinese painting at a young age, but turned to city life after picking up my painting brushes again.
Calla lily was rarely seen when I was young. I knew it quite late but came to like it fondly. I once bought a cluster of Calla lilies and made sketches of it almost every day for nearly a whole month. Later, I turned my sketches into eight continuous pieces of brush-and-ink painting, from day 1 to day 25.
Another cluster of Calla lilies was painted and exhibited in 2003 as a tribute to the medical workers for what they had done during that year’s SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak. – FS

馬蹄蓮
2003 / 作品：9張 / 向醫護人員致敬曾經展出

我甚少畫花卉，但年少學畫時，臨摹的多是花鳥。荒廢多年之後，再重拾畫筆，卻轉為繪寫城市生活。
小時候，馬蹄蓮難得一見。我很遲才認識這種花，但極喜其雅潔。有一趟，我買了一大束馬蹄蓮，每天畫速寫，同一瓶花，畫了差不多一個月。其後，畫稿轉成八張水墨，時間由第一天至第廿五天。
2003年我也畫過一張馬蹄蓮，曾在沙士 (一度被為非典型肺炎) 疫症後展出，向醫護人員致敬。- FS

Cover image
Day 8 第八天
2004, ink and colour on paper 水墨設色紙本, 60x60cm

Project gallery
1. Day 5  第五天
2004, ink and colour on paper 水墨設色紙本, 60x60cm

2. Day 25  第廿五天
2004, ink and colour on paper 水墨設色紙本, 60x60cm

3. A Tribute to the Medical Workers 向醫護人員致敬
2003, ink and colour on paper 水墨設色紙本, 113 x 69 cm
People who gave the most during the 2003 SARS epidemic were the medical workers. [See Hong Kong 2003 in Portfolio.]
2003年，香港受沙士疫症打擊，期間付出最多的是醫護人員。[見作品集之香港2003]