Lin Cheung Derbyshire, United Kingdom

• 
• 
• 

  Back to profiles Invite to apply

Lin Cheung is an abstract mixed media artist, international educator and coach. Her work explores materiality, surface, structure and intuitive mark-making, often drawing on the urban environment and the physical behaviour of paint. Alongside her studio practice, she supports artists through courses, critique groups and one-to-one coaching.

My practice is rooted in abstraction, mixed media and intuitive process. I work by responding to what is happening in the moment: marks, accidents, resistance in the materials, shifts in mood, and the unexpected relationships that emerge between colour, surface and form.

The paintings often begin without a fixed image in mind. I build, disrupt, cover, scrape back and rework, allowing the surface to become a place where conscious decisions and less conscious material can meet. I’m interested in the point where structure and instinct overlap: where a painting begins to reveal something that couldn’t have been planned in advance.

My work often includes layered paint, collage, fabric, paper, dry media and found fragments. These materials allow me to work with concealment, exposure, interruption and trace. Urban surfaces, worn architecture and weathered materials often act as visual prompts, but the deeper enquiry is into how meaning arises through process, embodied response and the physical act of making.

Alongside my studio practice, I teach and coach other artists through courses, critique groups and one-to-one work. This teaching sits closely beside my own making, as both are concerned with curiosity, visual language, self-expression and the development of a sustained, responsive creative practice.