Gilded Figurative Artist
Gold leaf · Dry pigment · Acrylic
Selected Works
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Exhibitions & Projects
New work You Are Here, Somehow — acrylic and 22k gold leaf on canvas, with a gilded figure at its centre. The gold traces the cracks rather than hiding them; the surface shifts with the light as you move past it.
A series of one-to-one conversations with people across the North about their sense of place, community and belonging — voices that feed a new artwork in my gilded, figurative language. A project about being heard, and the quiet marks a place leaves on us.
Supported by People’s Powerhouse, Arts Council England and The National Lottery Community Fund.
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.
Commissions · Live portraits · Events