PAUL CHING BOR. “… watercolor such delicate medium… this conventional, romantic medium… negotiating the ways to convey fragility, vulnerability and apprehension through the perception of the grey zone, where psychology overlaps with landscape - where the human consciousness seeks both inspiration and liberation from environmental constraints. Perhaps the extreme opposite, the delicate nature of this medium on paper, opposed by the fundamental heaviness of the themes of the work, as much as the in excess way of the handling, those would wear each other out in their most daring, imposing manner on the surface of the paper.“ - Paul Ching Bor A contemporary painter whose dynamic cityscapes represent a bold new exploration of the medium of watercolor, Paul Ching-Bor was born in 1963 in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, the capital of the province of Guangdong. He studied fine art at Guangzhou Fine Art University (China) and Jing De Zhen Ceramic Institute (China). For nearly ten years, he lived and worked as a professional artist in Sydney, Australia. In 1996, he moved to New York, where he studied painting and printmaking at the National Academy of Design. Presently living and working in New York City, Paul has had solo exhibitions in Australia, Austria, Germany, and the United States. The recent subject of a solo exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art and currently conducting an Artist in Residency in Vienna, Austria, Paul’s stunning works can be found hanging in prominent public locations around the globe, among them, The Ritz Carlton, New York, NY; the Grand Hyatt, Tokyo; Sparkasse Bank, Salzburg, Germany; Shell Chemicals, Melbourne, Australia; Hilton International, Sydney, Australia; Mobil Oil, Melbourne, Australia; Park Hyatt, Shanghai; Hilton International, Sydney, Australia; the Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; and the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina.