Janet Pancho Gupta is an artist and

photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographe ...

. Gupta was born and raised in

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and is based in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

Biography

Gupta was born in Mabinay, Negros Oriental, Philippines. The artist and former

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came to

from the

in 2000.

Paintings

As a painter, Gupta is known to create bold, detailed

watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

works and intense

portrait A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...

s that draw the viewer to the expressions. Gupta began to paint nature as it was the aspect that she missed the most from her childhood as she was constantly surrounded by it in her hometown back in the

. Gupta's recent " pixelated" artworks highlight her feelings of being enclosed in the small spaces of

Photography

Artist Janet Pancho Gupta mixes colourful, up-close images with stark black and whites of city life in

. Gupta calls her work a transformation and not a transition because both painting and photography become a perfect marriage in her creativity. Gupta's photographs capture the daily life in the city, the busy urban landscape and nature in the

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

Exhibitions

* 2017 Asian Contemporary Art,

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* 2016 Symphony Of Life, Solo Exhibition Art Show, Philippine Consulate General, Hong Kong (Watercolor Paintings) * 2016 Finding Face, Solo Exhibition, Culture Club Gallery, Soho Central (Street & Nature Photography) * 2014 Group Exhibition, Prince Marco Polo Hotel, Tsim Tsa Tsui, Hong Kong * 2014 Group Exhibition, Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong * 2013 Charity Auction, Helena May, Central * 2012 Hong Kong Contemporary, Presented by Moon Gallery, The Excelsior Hotel, Hong Kong * 2012 Hong Kong Gardening Society, YMCA, T.S.T. Hong Kong * 2008 Colours And Faces Of Life, Solo Exhibition, Culture Club Gallery, Soho, Hong Kong.

References

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