London-based painter Chris Huen Sin-Kan renders in ink unremembered and often overlooked moments in life. Taking his dogs for a walk, watching his children wreak havoc in his apartment, admiring his wife curled up in front of the TV; for the Hong Kong-born artist, these quotidian events are worthy of large-scale celebration on canvas.

This episode of Meet the artists by Art Basel takes a backstage glimpse at the elements that make up Chris Huen Sin Kan’s creative practice. His works are rendered in Chinese ink layering techniques and Western abstractionism, firmly locating them between worlds—East and West, memory and reality.

Moving with his family to the UK in 2021, the artist’s domestic life continues to be an inextinguishable source of inspiration. The only marked change in his work is the proliferation of the color green, which he attributes to London’s surprising number of natural spaces. For those who can read between Chris Huen Sin-Kan’s gestural brushstrokes, his dogs Doodood and Mui Mui can be spotted wandering through the capital’s royal parks and numerous garden squares.

Through his love of the everyday and ability to cherish the immemorable, the artist brings art back to the human level.

Chris Huen Sin-Kan is represented by Simon Lee Gallery (London, Hong Kong); Ota Fine Arts (Hong Kong); and Gallery Exit (Hong Kong).