Born in 1922 in Hong Kong, Hon Chi Fun started his artistic career with landscape paintings, which are the reminiscent of Western Impressionism, yet retaining the colors and techniques of Chinese traditional ink painting. During his initial phase of artistic career from the mid-1950s to the 1960s, Hon Chi Fun made tours to suburbs and the countryside of the city and did landscape sketches, fusing realistic approach with Western styles such as that of Impressionism. One of his early works, Floating Neighbour, well represents his attempt during this period to capture the landscape of the city and the suburbs with both the colors of Chinese traditional ink paintings and the mediums of Western art, oil paint and canvas.
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