Gold
Meets Soul

Hiumandy Ho

何 曉 雯

Hong Kong born, Manchester based. My work explores the psychological states we carry but rarely speak — longing, stillness, grief, resilience — encoded in the human figure and the symbolic objects that hold our inner lives. A sacred heart, a crown of thorns, a sleeping form: each carries emotional weight that crosses cultures and time.

Inspired by her favourite artist Gustav Klimt, gold becomes both surface and depth — a language for beauty inseparable from longing, ornament inseparable from emotion.

Art, for me, is a form of connection. Through live portrait drawing, I meet people face to face — reading their presence, translating something true into line and light. Every portrait is a small conversation, caught in a moment of golden attention.