Constance Fong works from the everyday world around her, giving ordinary subject matter a fresh spirit, offering us intimate studies of loved subjects such as fruits, garden flowers,  backyard scenery, passing animals.  She mixes her Eastern heritage and Western experience by applying bold Chinese black ink over light washes of conventional watercolor.  Her whimsical and idiosyncratic paintings invite viewers to return to their own youth and favorite places; her paintings are romances between ink and paper.

Here is what Constance Fong says of her work:

"I intend my painting to celebrate nature in all her glory.  My heart is full of gladness whenever I paint.  A lot of my work is inspired by the Adirondack scenery I have enjoyed so long.  Other inspirations are areas of China where I have visited and traveled in years past, or vignettes of flora and fauna in my New Jersey gardens.

"For colors I use traditional Chinese mineral pigments and also my Windsor & Newton watercolors.   I use both Chinese papers and Western watercolor papers, but on all types of paper I find my Chinese brushes indispensable.

"My first painting experience was in grade school where I had an art teacher who admired 19th century Paris artists,especially Utrillo. He had us copying reprints of Utrillo. We were given crayons of many colors so we could experiment with our own color combinations. I remember that as easy enjoyment.

"At home, I could always find Chinese brushes and Chinese calligraphy copybooks. Practicing calligraphy was an easy past time.  From years of practice with the Chinese brush, I somehow found I could convey strength in expression from the brush strokes."