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Senior member since October 2, 2008

STATEMENT

It’s like a new discovery whenever I start a painting. I always try to make each of the paintings has its own personality and soul by employing a variety of techniques.


OVERVIEW

Stephen Man-Fai Cheng has been a professional artist for thirty years. He graduated from the Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts and studied under the direction of some of China’s famous painters and art professors. His instructors taught him to observe life and to try to capture the essence of the subject at hand. His early paintings reflect these ideas in their treatment of still life and images from life. While a teen, he enhanced his grasp of both figure and form by making thousands of impromptu sketches. These studies accelerated his tremendous talent for the creation of art. His past endeavors reflect the diversity of his talents in pursuits such as oil portraits, murals, set designs for both theater and opera and also teaching painting. His works have been in numerous exhibitions and his achievements have been reported by newspapers, television and magazines in Hong Kong and Canada.?Stephen’s paintings can be found in commercial galleries and corporate and private collections in Canada, USA, Britain, Europe, Japan and China. Stephen is a Canadian citizen and resides in Port Moody.

 
AWARDS

• “Time Pass” won “People Choice” award in Art Focus 7th Annual Fall Show, PoCo. Oct, 2002
• “Free dance” won “People Choice” award in Art Focus 8th Annual Fall Show, PoCo. Oct, 2003
  
• “Ballerina # 19” won “People Choice” award in Art Focus 9th Annual Fall Show,?PoCo. Oct, 2004
  
• “Ballerina # 18” won “People Choice” award in Burnaby Artists Guild Spring Show, 2005
  
• “Free Dance” won “1st Place Best of Show”, FCA Calgary Chapter Exhibition “Art Fusion” in May 2005
  
• “The Tibetan Singer” won “Award of Excellent”, FCA “Human Figure show” 2005
  
• “The Wisdom” won “Award of Excellent”, FCA “Small, Smaller, Smallest” 2005
  
• “Tibet Light” won “Phoenix Art Workshop Award”, South Delta Artists’ Guild “Oil & Water 2006” Juried Show.
  
• “Mom, One More Flower” won “People Choice Award” in Burnaby Artists Guild Spring Show, 2006.
• “Little Tibetan Prayer” won “Silver Award of Excellence” and “Best People Choice” award in FCA “Open Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Show” 2008.
  

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Works had been published in “ESQUIRE” (Chinese vision) magazine in February and May 1989
  

• Invited by various public media and art organization for interviews:??Television Broadcasts ltd 1993?Sunday Morning Post Magazine 1993?Satellite Television Asian Region Ltd 1994?The H.K. Academy for Performing Arts 1997?The Fair Child TV Vancouver 2007