Maevaughn Chiu (b -1966) paints compelling abstractions that explore form, colour and surface. 

In her recent work, small jewel-like compositions investigate how the mind processes memories. How periods of her life can be condensed and crystalised into a composite image depicting the psychological space. These are personal. Rooted in the postmodern and modernist movements that permeated her childhood.

 

Complimenting these are expansive linear compositions. They are intuitive, performative. Painted in layers, there is an autonomy to her process,  each line reacts to the previous one.They are influenced by the nature of the paint - the fluidity, the transparency and tactility - these works allude to themes of existence and transformation, suggesting a profound sense of flow and evolution.

Chiu’s work is imbued with a meditative stillness, while some of her paintings conjure thoughts of land or seascapes, or figurative associations, they are records of the intangible.