About the Stone Master

Kong Kai Ming is a well-known artist and art instructor who was born in 1932 in Hong Kong. He graduated from Hong Kong Fine Art School in 1954. In the past, he taught at various institutions, such as the Hong Kong Fine Art School and the Extra-mural Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, with numerous students.

Kong's watercolor paintings and sketching greatly reflect the beauty of nature. Due to his impressive talent in art, a few years after his graduation, he had already received the All China Youth Art Award (1958). In 1996, he was even awarded as the Honorary Fellow of David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies of the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Honorably, Kong was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia by the HKSAR government 2006 Honours and Awards Ceremony in the Government House on 28 October 2006, praising his life-long and highly significant contribution in art for 50 years.

On the other hand, Kong held various exhibitions domestically and internationally. He held his first one-man exhibition in Hong Kong in 1956. Since then, his works have been widely exhibited and acclaimed in Japan, the United States of America, Taiwan, Malaysia and Mainland China. Kong's painting “PEEPING” is short listed for the Annual Exhibition '92 held by America watercolour Society (AWS) in New York. In November 92, he participated in the “Art Galleries Fair R.O.C.-1992 Taipei”, at the World Trade Centre in Taipei. He held his one-man exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Center in May 1993 and then later Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in August 1994. A fine collection of Kong's works can also be found in the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Art Museum of Guangzhou.

In recent years, Kong is an advocate of the “Art is Spiritual” theory and the applied “Spirit” in his study of art. He has insisted on pursuing arts with spiritual works and humanity concern, for instance, his STONE ART MASTERPIECES particularly mirror the attractiveness and majesty of his spiritual concept. He would like to share his most precious and latest watercolor paintings publicly in the upcoming solo exhibition.