The Hong Kong artist’s paintings of his family and dogs show the beauty of everyday life.

Hong Kong-based British artist Chris Huen Hsing-kang was recently in Vancouver, Canada, to attend the opening of his solo exhibition at the Center for International Contemporary Art (CICA), presenting paintings on themes that have become familiar to those who follow his work. practice: his family and his dogs.

Titled “I Do Nothing Every Day,” the exhibition features new works that depict his wife Hayes, son Joel, daughter Tess and his three dogs, Baltz, MuiMui and Dudud, standing or walking in a forested setting.

“I don’t really have a specific topic that I want to talk about,” says the 33-year-old. All he has done over the last decade, he says, is depict the passage of time and draw pictures of his own life.

Despite what he calls the banality of his practice, Huen has become one of the most recognizable Hong Kong-born artists of his generation.

Since he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013, his oil paintings, combining Western painting techniques with traditional Chinese ink painting styles, have attracted much attention from institutions and collectors.