Artist Focus - May Cheung Grant

May Cheung Grant

Our next featured artist is May Cheung Grant. You can visit May's Feature window at the Wynd Gallery from June 16 - 28 and find out more about May and her work below

The Wynd Gallery is a co-operative art gallery run by local artists. The gallery offers an ever-changing exhibition of contemporary prints, paintings, sculpture, jewellery, photography, ceramics and textiles. The gallery promotes the Arts in Letchworth Garden City and provides an exciting venue suitable for artists working across a range of contemporary visual arts media. Throughout the year our artists will share their work through our feature window programme

You are our current featured artist at the Wynd gallery, with our featured artist window. Please tell us about what we can expect to see when we visit the gallery?

Showing some newer works combined with some of my favourites. Hopefully lots of joyful colours that makes the viewer smile.

Can you tell us a little about your journey into art?

I trained in Graphic Design and my very first job was with The Design Clinic (Virgin Group) then various other design companies in London, then in Hong Kong worked for Conran Design Pacific (HK) plus working for Leo Burnett Advertising Agency. Worked in Print company. Returned to UK after almost 7 years away. Then I took over 16 years off from design for family commitment and worked part time at Nursery. During Covid I took the opportunity to start painting, self taught, still exploring and on my art journey.

What materials or techniques do you most enjoy working with?

Acrylics, inks , gold leaf

What’s one tool you couldn’t live without?

My really old tatty paintbrush!

Where do you draw inspiration from? Nature, people, emotions, or something else?

The botanicals and the life in the ocean, the plankton, the fascinating living creatures under the sea, the beautiful patterns and contours and colours are a great source of inspiration, the flow and the natural movement of everything in nature is a joy.

What projects or ideas are you excited to explore next?

More refine abstract

What’s one surprising fact about you that people might not expect?

Work with Children

Do you have a ritual or routine that helps you get into a creative mindset?

Try to paint every day

Coffee, tea, or something else while you create?

Just tea

What advice would you give someone who wants to start exploring craft or art themselves?

Go for it!