Jewelle Yeung, youngest daughter of business mogul Carlos Yeung and Mariquita Salimbangon Yeung, had her first one-woman art exhibit at the 856G Gallery along A.S. Fortuna St., Mandaue City.
On opening day, Msgr. Roberto Alesna blessed the place and Jewelle's recent works. After which, a cocktail reception followed where hundreds of art lovers filled the gallery to the hilt. The exhibit runs until October.
Of Chinese and Filipino descent, Jewelle Yueng spent her formative years split between Hong Kong, Cebu and the United Kingdom. Educated in the UK, she moved to London in 2001, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fashion Design and Technology degree at the University of the Arts. In 2006 she graduated from The City and Guilds of London Art School with a masters degree in Fine Art - oil painting. Promptly after, she was head hunted by the fashion house of Hussein Chalayan, and Puma Black Label, playing a key role in print design for their lines. In 2009 she returned to Asia to pursue her passion in painting. She has exhibited in galleries in New York and Hong Kong.
Jewelle's paintings often deal with the space between reality and the dream, constantly influenced by changing landscapes and different energies that coexist on the same plain. She is intrigued by the dichotomy of the conscious mind and the connection this has with emotion. Inspired by nature and the notion of the unknown, Jewelle uses vivid strokes and soft blends through oil, to create subliminal landscapes with morphed representations of familiar organisms, inviting the viewers to transition between reality and the surreal.
After 15 years of living abroad, Jewelle now works and lives in Hong Kong and the Philippines.
"I am fascinated by dreams and how our mind processes pieces of reality into our subconscious, mixing it up, and finding its way back to our conscious mind again. I like to bring these things out in my work. I am also almost always drawn to the natural pattern of things. Natural landscapes, the change in climate, the evolution of living things, be it plant or animal, growth and decay etc. There's just something magnificent in being surrounded by a beauty you can't control."