Chowwai Cheung is a contemporary painter and printmaker whose work is inspired by the coastal landscapes of Devon — both remembered and imagined. Through abstraction, texture, and geometry, her work explores the shifting relationship between land, memory, and atmosphere, creating compositions that feel at once familiar and dreamlike.
Cheung graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) in Printed Textiles from Manchester Metropolitan University, where she developed her distinctive material-led approach to colour, surface, and composition. Her work has been exhibited internationally and selected for major exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, as well as exhibitions at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, the Royal West of England Academy, and the National Open Print Exhibition.
Working across painting and collagraph printmaking, Cheung creates original artworks inspired by geological formations, coastal contours, and the changing structure of the landscape. Her compositions are built through layered geometric forms, balancing precise hard-edged shapes with soft translucent tones and richly textured surfaces. Her collagraph prints are handmade using individually drawn and cut plates, before being hand-finished in acrylic paint, allowing each work to develop into a unique piece.
Alongside her printmaking practice, her paintings extend this exploration of texture, atmosphere, and spatial rhythm, combining painterly gestures with carefully structured abstraction.
Chowwai Cheung’s contemporary paintings and prints are recognised for their quiet sense of balance, tactile depth, and evocative interpretation of landscape, making her work highly sought after by collectors of contemporary British art.
