Chow travelled widely in North America after he settled in the United States and later Canada, taking in the expansive landscapes and drawing inspiration from them. The trips spawned a series of landscape paintings that are panoramic and inspirational. The pictorial composition in this work is so methodically crafted that the viewer is invited into the imaginative landscape first by the trees and rocks in the foreground, then entering the nuanced depths on the pictorial frame. The viewer involuntarily looks from left to right and from foreground to middle ground, and gradually escalating from eye level to aerial view. There is a rhythmic order in the composition, punctuated by voids, boulders and vegetation spread over a spatial yet layered landscape of rivers and mountain ranges.
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