Norris Yim is a self-taught painter based in Hong Kong who graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Design (Environmental & Interior) in 2014. Searching for an alternative way to express himself, he created abstract paintings as a way to cure his spirit. Using multiple color thicknesses to create an abstract painting (often a portrait), the abstract pigments represent his dark side and mood, which forms the foundation of the art.
Painting for him, is purely a means of self-presentation, a process of transforming his observation of others and internalizing it as creative inspiration. Seeking his spiritual satisfaction with poetry, self-expression is often tinged with loneliness.
Norris believes that portraits are colored with illusory, dark, and lonely self-expression. Memory loss, bewilderment, and an imbalanced existence are all symptoms of an unbalanced life when you try to see but can’t. Living without a soul is the same as thinking without imagination. Even though the contour is determined, the more multitasking you do, the fewer specifics define, especially in faces or memories of the inside. The picture depicts the forgetting process and thoughts that are just out of grasp. “Observation, memory, imagination, are the principal aspects of my work. In the end, I’m just fulfilling my ambition through colors to create more inspirations,” says Norris.