The work of Heidy Sumei Chuang invites the viewer into a healing space of wonder. Her vision begins in a garden, where flowers and leaves reveal the story of the earth’s awakening and beauty. Her blossoms inhabit a quiet garden space where she discovers why she paints. Revealing the spaces between leaves, petals, and branches on paper is the poetry that captures her imagination. Chuang expresses poetic attentiveness by translating floral shapes and edges into forms and lines. When she begins a new piece, she first encounters the raw materials of painting. Her deep respect for materials informs her creative process. Chuang notices the paper’s texture, the fibers of her brushes, the water’s fluidity, and the saturated pigments of her paints. She primarily paints with colors extracted from rocks and minerals, elements of the earth. Like the minerals, her brushwork unveils and releases the essence of her subject. These paintings express the fragility of something elemental to the human heart: a yearning for the ineffable.

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Heidy Sumei Chuang is a Taiwanese-American Artist from Atlanta, Georgia. She works both in floral design and painted media. She holds a B.F.A. in painting from Washington University and an M.F.A. from Boston University.