Thomas Ngan 顏耀明

Thomas Ngan was born in 1995 in Toronto, Canada, and later returned to Hong Kong with his family.  He was moving back and forth between two cities multiple times during his youth, but most of his adulthood was spent in Hong Kong.

Ngan started teaching painting classes soon after he graduated from high school in Toronto. Over the years through teaching, he refined his philosophy, analytical system, and technical approach toward painting. His works with their display of refined draftsmanship became known among international artists communities, as they were often featured on various representational art pages on social media.

During Ngan’ stays in England, France, Spain, and America where he visited dozens of cities and their museums, he was astonished by the masterpieces of the naturalism painters, realism painters of the late Victorian period, as well as the spontaneous yet abstract expressions that the impressionist and post-impressionist employed. Seeing the masterworks in person confirms and grounds his understanding of paintings as well as inspiring them. His style has since then increasingly embraced the duality of both realism and abstraction.