9月18日，万世典藏画廊将举办“无双——杨素珊、陈竹君油画展”。 “无双”是两位香港艺术家继2006年后，在北京举办的第二个展览。两位元艺术家都注重从不同的视角、情感及绘画风格来审视人生。她们的作品採用富有节奏感、生动的绘画笔触来表现她们对可视生命脉动的独特认知。同样地，她们偏好于用色彩创造出协调和对比之境，带领观眾向更深层次的感官体验和自我反省之旅迈进。

杨素珊，出生於香港，后移居加拿大多伦多。她自幼开始学习绘画，在研究学习中国艺术的过程中，个人绘画技巧得到了持续稳定的发展。她曾留学美国纽约学习美术及电影製作，其后取得香港城市大学行政人员工商管理硕士学位。

色彩明亮是杨素珊绘画的最大特点，藉此作為视觉体验的重要元素的色彩转换成一种与灵魂有关的艺术。这种转变不仅能使观察者意识到客体的寧静，并能借此“澄怀观照”式地凸显出艺术家的个人情感，这也是艺术家完成自我发掘与省视的过程。

她对油画这种材料有一种偏执的热爱，用女性特有的对色彩的敏感来表达情绪变化——激情而有张力。同时，她作品兼具永恆和普遍性，从而激发了神秘的氛围，促进多元文化交流的可能性。

陈竹君，自幼生长香港，并于17岁时远赴加拿大多伦多留学。其后获得多伦多约克郡大学视觉艺术系美术学士学位。在艺术领域，她涉猎颇广，包括图像设计、自由艺术家和画家等。她原创的油画和塑胶彩作品被香港和加拿大私人及公共团体多次收藏。

虽然陈竹君至今仍是一名图像设计工作者，但自2005年始她全力以赴地开始了艺术体验和探索之旅，并创作出了一系列颇具创作性的作品。她积极地尝试运\\\用不同的媒介进行创作，包括塑胶彩和油画顏料。其后不久，她完成了压抑而艰难的探索阶段，开始进行自己独特的抽象绘画表达。自此，她开始沈迷於塑胶彩和色彩，将密集的笔触和抽象绘画风格持续至今。

由於对色彩之间的明暗对比有一种本能的感觉，她尤其擅於运\\\用具有视觉衝击力的黑色，并且能够进行技巧性地选择和处理。这种对顏色的选择、佈置和对深色的处理运\\\用能力来源於生活中强烈的情感经验。陈竹君的绘画以顏料的厚重為特点并為人知晓，这背后是一双自信且形象鲜明的不断涂抹的手。

两位女性对绘画艺术拥有无比的热情，支持着她们不断探索与实践。在互相激励的同时，共同分享着对艺术的热情。今次举办的画展，将近年的作品拿出来与大家分享，希望观者可以同样感受到这种对艺术的热情与执着——生活本该就是这样丰满。

“Sans Duo” is the second painting exhibition held by the two artists in Beijing since 2006.  Both artists look at life from different perspectives, emotions and painting styles, yet complement each other with their shared passion in art. Their paintings adopt rhythmic and vivid brush strokes to establish their own perceptions of optical pulses of life. Similarly, their preference of the use of colors creates harmony and contrast bring the audience close to a further sensual experience and the seeking of self consciousness.

Susan Yeung is an artist born in Hong Kong and a resident of Toronto,  Canada. She began to study painting at an early age, her painting skill continued to sustain and develop through studies of Chinese art. She studied arts & film in New York and later on obtained an EMBA at Hong Kong City University.

Yeung’s work is of a contemporary character and highly influenced by impressionists painting. Her work transforms the painting to a spiritual art through vibrant colors, which is a very important element in visual

experience.  This transformation allows one to sense the tranquility of an object and manifest his emotion toward it, also fulfills the self-exploring process that the artist wants the audience to go through.

Striving to express emotional reaction by the use of pigment and color,  Susan Yeung takes the impressionism to a more contemporary  and abstract level. Oil pigment has been her favorite media which is well witnessed in her latest series of colorful impressionistic oil paintings of abstract landscapes. The value of art that is broadly expressed in her painting always supports and enriches the various themes in her works. From borderless landscape to her emotional manifestation, her unique style is richly presented. Also the everlasting quality and life in her works always inspire the mystery and multi-cultural exchange.

Ada Chan grew up in Hong Kong. She went to study art in Toronto, Canada at the age of 17. Later She received her BFA degree in Visual Arts from York University of Toronto. She works in various fields of art as a graphic designer, a free-lance artist and a painter. Her original acrylic & oil paintings are collected by corporate and private studios throughout the Hong Kong & Canada.

As a graphic designer, Ada devoted herself to creative painting full time and began a journey of experimentation and exploration. She worked with various medium including acrylics and oil paints. Several years ago, overcoming a depressive hardship of her life, she began to experiment her unique abstract brush strokes and completed series of abstract paintings after she survived a depressing and tough time. She fell in love with in acrylics & oils because she found acrylics pigment provides inspiration for her when used as colors and background textures. Her style of thick brushes and abstraction continue to thrive these days.

Chan’s excellence in her various series of works partly lies in her consistent artistic level developed from her years of working in various fields. She has an acute instinctive in using intense dark color and for contrasting composition and has showed great skill and selection in using them. Her choice of dark coloration, handling and employing of it come from inspiration from her rich emotional life experience. Chan is known for her style of impasto effects, which is done truly by a confident and vivid-moving hand.