Notts Through Chinese Brush

About this event

What happens when one of the world’s oldest artistic traditions encounters the rolling countryside and communities of Nottinghamshire? This summer, discover a unique cultural space where Eastern brushwork meets Western landscapes, and where artistic traditions become a living bridge between past and present, East and West.
 

Notts Through Chinese Brush brings together three professional artists whose practices are rooted in different traditions of Chinese art, yet who now share a common home in Nottinghamshire. Having each journeyed from their place of birth to build new lives in the UK, they bring with them memories, cultural heritage, and evolving perspectives shaped by migration and belonging.

Featuring works by Dr Tsz Wun Kwong, Mr Ping-Kin So, and Ms Jin Wu, the exhibition showcases three distinctive Chinese art forms: Chinese Calligraphy, Traditional Shan Shui (Landscape) Painting, and Mogu Painting (“boneless” technique)—a refined painting technique that creates form through colour rather than ink outlines.

Although each artist comes from a different background, they now share a common home in Nottinghamshire. Through their work, they reflect on place, memory, identity and belonging, demonstrating how centuries-old artistic traditions continue to respond to contemporary life in Britain.