Ceramics

After teaching morning watercolour classes at the Royal Ontario Museum, Loi would venture across the street to the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Her excitement and interest in the collection, and her desire to express this through painting, won her the unique opportunity to paint from their exceptional collection of porcelain.

Her paintings from this period show a combination of loose yet intricate technique, demonstrating both her love for abstraction and detail. As we see in her later renderings of shoes from the Bata Shoe Museum and Chinese Children’s Festival Hats from The Museum For Textiles, her love for detail intensified to a high degree of realism.

However, one can always sense Loi’s personality through her brush strokes, leaving us with anything but a cold copy.