Judy Tang graduated from Ravensbourne University London with a BA (Hons.) Fashion Design degree in 2020. Now she is a fashion designer, an emerging artist currently based in Hong Kong.

Influenced by her creative foundations in pencil-and-paper illustration, her work aims to exemplify the inseparability of daily life and art. Her creations are, in essence, a distillation of the abstract into the physical — embodiments of free-flowing creativity in concrete form. As an avid drawer, her fascination with movement and the human form also features heavily in her work.

Throughout her years studying fashion, she has spent a lot of time reflecting on the relationships between us and our clothes. She sees fashion as something that is intimately and inextricably tied to our bodies, our routines, our sense of self. It is not only something that is part of our lives -- it is our lives. Meanwhile, to her, drawing the faces for the models on her sketches brought her deeply in love. She wanted her designs not to be only about clothes but the emotions hidden behind. Therefore she started painting and sketching to try to understand and explore the faces and the mood, this is the essence she wants to bring to her artwork.

We start off the day with mirrors. They reflect our appearance innocently - a perfect replica of what we look like to the outside world. But they also reflect our emotions through our multitude of expressions. In a way, paintings are like mirrors for me. They reflect my ideas through faces and express my feelings from my mind.

That’s how I started my journey of painting faces, but I also added a mix of shapes and colours intertwined in the background. This echoed my drive to move forward from a focus on faces to what’s behind and surrounding us. We are important but what’s with us is also vital, as an echo chamber to our state of mind. In in the future,

I will continuously to explore our daily elements and their relationship with us in life.

Our garden in the vase, 2023

50.5x50.5 cm, Oil paint on canvas

US, 2020

43x62.5 cm, Oil paint, ink pen on wood-like cardboard

We Met, 2022

80x54 cm, Chinese Ink, Cinnabar on pape

The Steam Room, 2020

56x35 cm, Oil paint, Acrylic, Crayon on paper