The mixed media technique Wah Wing Chan uses for creating his playful, spontaneous works on paper involves applying acrylic paint onto paper. Wing, as he is known, then removes the surface paint. After drying, a second layer is applied. This process is repeated several times using water as a wash, until the image reaches a state of completion. It is like a balancing act where chance and aesthetic decisions play into the final result. While artists like Jackson Pollock, Sam Francis and Francine Simonin are an inspiration to Wing, these recent small-scale works speak of the flux and flow, the chaos and order of nature’s processes. In works like Gravité and Mutation (2011), greys and blacks compliment each other developing a near three-dimensional effect of spatial differentiation to great avail. The greys are like shadow imagery, providing a different depth layer effect. These are transverse, multi-layered abstracts whose markings and accretions are more conscious than the large scale gestural works Wing has exhibited in earlier shows held in Peru, the United States, Korea and New Zealand. Shifting scales enable the artist to undertake new challenges. There is a floating compositional effect in these new works that has a near sub aqueous feeling, like Paul-Emile Borduas’ gouaches from the 1950s. These forms could be evocations of nature’s processes, and of the life cycle’s inbuilt impermanence and transformative character. The essence of life, a collaging of movements in time made visual, is what Wah Wing Chan’s art is all about, whatever scale he works in.