Pang Tseng Ying

In the world of saavy art collectors, Tsen-Ying Pang needs very little introduction. Like a movie star, Pang has fans who watch his works carefully – always searching for a unique piece that will please them visually and appreciate in value.

Pang specializes in watercolors and his work has been hailed by art experts throughout the world as an “occidental symphony with oriental indirection.” His new collection now is being shown at the Hartley Gallery on Park Avenue in Winter Park.

In addition to painting living creatures, flowers and other objects either in abstract or realism, he always manages to induce subtle moods in viewers. He says he is fascinated and obsessed with the colors and imagery he sees in his dreams and tries to transform them onto his paintings.

One of his latest works “Raindrops” is an example, infused with bluish gray and lightest pink colors, and dotted with imperfect circles of soft cloud like color.

He said he paints from early morning to the wee hours of the night, taking hardly any time out, even for a chat with his wife. “That’s why I can’t speak or explain my paintings in English too well,” said the Taiwanese born artist. “When I sleep, all I can think of is my painting, trying to figure out how to draw certain objects and what color I want. I beat my brains out and dream about it,” he said laughing.