Jessie Siu, a Hong Kong-based female artist, is a philosophy postgraduate whose work of art shows heavy influence of both Western and Chinese philosophy.
 
Jessie is largely a self-taught artist, did not formally study art, and see herself more as a philosopher with the wings of a painter. Art to this disciple of wisdom is a means to the acquisition of truth, moral improvement and the overcoming of self.
 
In order to truly convey the expressive spirit of the Taoist and Existentialist worldview, she felt the need to break away from the restrictive boundaries of any existing art schools, artistic styles and prevailing trends in the current contemporary art scene.

She joined Global Artist Committee of Asian Art Association in 2020.

The sculptural painting is a combination of the flow of wave and the form of lotus flower.
Wave is strong, turbulent and powerful. Flower on the other hand is soft, delicate and vulnerable.

The two opposing forces are merged into one depicting the interchanging dual nature
namely the yin and yang of all things in life.

Lotus flower struggles through the mud to emerge beautiful and whole. Through mud, it rises. Through water, it emerges. Through sunlight, it blossoms.

Water flows and adapt. Water in the form of wave is one of the strongest forces in the nature and it never stops. It keeps coming and flowing. The continuous transformations and changes give rise to beings from non-beings. The pure white of the sculptural painting depicts the state of void is not emptiness, instead infinite possibilities are waiting the right moment and right condition to come and bring about existence of actions by effortless effort. Life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, like the waves crashing on the shore. Nothing has any inherent lasting existence, like waves, everything come and go. Yet we grasp so tightly at the ungraspable. Let nature be our teacher. The more we watch and contemplate over the ocean waves and the life of flowers, the more we understand the fragility of life and learn to finally let go. If we more we understand the fleeting nature of existence the more we can go with the flow. If we all model our lives after that of water and flower, even in a difficult time like the convid 19 we are experiencing, we would find the strength and resilience needed to conquer our fear and over come the non stopping waves of struggles facing our way.

Jessie created two distinctively original visual languages to communicate her own philosophy and coined them “Inkless Ink” and “Almost Animated".

“Inkless-Ink” creates Chinese ink-like paintings without the use of ink. The pure white canvases magically transform into Chinese ink-like with the activation of a LED-light mechanism. The yang interchanges to yin. The hidden yin world is made visible. This process of concealment and revelation of possibilities-to-be is at the core teaching of both Taoism and Existentialism. This unique style was first shown in her solo debut exhibition in 2016 at Artify Gallery Hong Kong.

“Almost-Animated” is originally known as transcendental impressionism. Yet Jessie later dropped the clumsy philosophy jargon to a more relatable term. This style is characterized by multiple layers of rapid thin lines, continuous brushstrokes and open composition. The dynamic flow of lines, colours and shapes create the illusion of movement and achieving the effect of “almost animated”.

The two styles could not be more different in appearance yet they are instantly recognizable as her own and essentially dealing with the same investigation, namely, the meaning of being.

To Jessie, Art, at its greatest, should transcend the appearance and allow the truth to spring forth. As an artist, she sees it as her mission to inspire, shape and transform the basic sense of what is, what matters, and what could be. Possibilities and truth are much more than meet the eyes. Genuinely meaningful possibilities and the ultimate truth are not immediately perceivable to us but waiting for us to discover and rediscover.

Jessie had never in her wildest dream imagined becoming an artist and did not decide to become one until the beginning of 2016. Her hybrid practice releases her from the mainstream and leading to mold her individual path.
Jessie has an extensive portfolio of interdisciplinary collaborations and corporate commissioned-based projects, clients include Marks and Spenser, the Grand Cinema, Zadig & Voltaire, Hong Kong Ballet and Lan Kwai Fong group etc.

Jessie established MBA Art Workshop, at PMQ, a one-of-a-kind art studio that taught art like no one else. Taking inspiration from cooking classes, she designed a series of one-off art workshops that are simple, fun and entertaining. By breaking down the process of painting into simple logical steps, absolute beginners without prior training can create something so beautiful they don't even believe they make it themselves. Jessie is a strong believer in crossing boundaries and overcoming obstacles. She finds so much meaning in helping the self-proclaimed-untalented to become talented making masterpieces with their own hands. Even for only 3 hours, the art making experience is a life-changing one. Jessie was invited to give a Ted talk at Ted x Lingnan University to share her unconventional teaching philosophy in February 2017.