Blue Lady with Parrots 2000

Walasse Ting painted this striking image, Blue Lady with Parrots, with vibrant colours and bold strokes. Imagine Ting at work here, the brush dancing across the paper, each stroke a confident, playful gesture. I wonder, what was it like to create this? Perhaps he was thinking about Matisse and his colourful interiors, or maybe he was just having a really good day, letting the colours sing. The paint looks thin, almost like watercolour, allowing the paper’s surface to breathe. Look at the way he's rendered the parrots' tails, how those lines drip downwards! There’s a lightness, a sense of freedom, like a jazz solo translated onto paper. Ting's work reminds me that painting is a constant conversation, artists riffing off each other across time, and inspiring us to see the world in new ways. It’s this exchange, this messy, beautiful dialogue, that keeps the art world spinning.