Touch the Light & Colour, 2017

Painting with Mixed Media on cutting Paper, blue

Dimensions: 152 x 152 x 50 cm

Kim Wan is a British artist of Malay-Chinese and English descent. Kim Wan's work is all painting - whether it is his obsessive self-exploration in a series of self-portraits, or "decorated" dollar notes as part of large-scale spatial installations. Graffiti forms a major backbone of his artistic development. As a child, Kim Wan first learned to draw by copying figures from comic strips. He loved drawing from the beginning and was always good at it. In 1998, he graduated from Winchester School of Art. He lives in Hastings, England. "It's the best place to create art," he says. The sky is important to him; his flat has a large window and offers an unobstructed view of the vast sea. You can't see anything except the horizon. A blank canvas.

In England, Kim Wan has shown works and installations in museums and institutions such as the National Portrait Gallery, TATE Modern, the Institute of Contemporary Art and the National Gallery. International exhibitions of his work have taken place in New York, Miami, Philadelphia, Athens, Berlin, Siena, Beijing, Moscow and the Louvre, Paris, among others. He performed 'Pandemonium' at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, directed by Danny Boyle.