LEE CHI CHING 李志清 | OLD TIMES OF HONG KONG 香港情懷

"As I observed the wooden grains on the skateboard, images of mist, clouds, mountains and water began to emerge, and these are features I wanted to preserve in this work. Hong Kong was once a fishing port, so I added an iconic sailboat within the water and clouds formed by the wood grain. The holes on the skateboard were also considered in the composition." - Lee Chi Ching

Comic artist and painter Lee Chi Ching is the vice-chairman of the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Artists Association. Winner of the 2007 Gold Award at the International Manga Award in Japan, Lee began his career in comics in 1981. In 1990s, he collaborated with Japanese publishers to release literary classics such as The Three Kingdoms and Sun Zi's Tactics. In 1997, Lee and the late Jin Yong (Louis Cha) jointly formed a publishing house to release comic versions of Jin Yong's popular novels The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. He also created the cover art for the Japanese versions of Jin Yong's novels. He was also the curator for the 2017 special exhibition on Jin Yong at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. He also created the Jin Yong stamps released by the Hongkong Post in 2018. Lee has dedicated the past decade in artistic creativity, and many of his works are held in museum collections as well as private collections.

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「看到滑板，我對着上面的木紋思考，漸漸看出了煙雲、山水，想盡量保留它們。香港曾經以漁港見稱，於是我加上了具代表性的帆船，暗示了木紋的水、雲。滑板上的幾個洞如何處理？令作品完美結合，都是我創作的思考因素。」── 李志清

李志清，港澳台美協港區副主席，漫畫家、藝術畫家。2007年曾得日本國際漫畫最優秀金獎；1981年起從事漫畫，1990年代主要與日本出版合作，曾出版三國志，孫子兵法等；1997年與金庸合組出版社，出版射雕英雄傳及笑傲江湖，同時為金庸小說創作日本版封面插畫；2017年為文化博物館策劃繪畫金庸展覽，2018年為香港郵政設計繪畫金庸郵票，近十多年主要從事藝術創作，大量作品為博物館及私人收藏。