About the Artist:

Watercolor paintings by retired architect, Robert Hsiung, will be featured at the Gallery at First Parish Church in Weston from January 18th through March 8, 2008. Hsiung, who lives in Newton and recently retired from a 40 year career as an architect, is now finding time to focus on his lifelong love – watercolor painting. His purpose is to capture elusive moods of moments and places, what he calls “Spirit of Place”. His paintings are realistic, his brush strokes are fluid and reminiscent of Chinese calligraphy, and his paintings represent a range of places including Alaska, Spain and coastal New England.

Hsiung began art lessons as a youth in China. He came to the US in 1952 to attend St. Norbert College, where he had his first watercolor solo show. He later attended MIT where he received a Master’s degree in architecture in the early 1960’s. After focusing intensively on his architectural career, it was not until 1993 that he resumed watercolor painting, taking workshops with prominent watercolorists including Susan Shatter, Gracia Dayton and Alvaro Castagnet.

Hsiung is a member of the New England Watercolor Society. His watercolors have been shown in numerous exhibitions and solo shows and is in private and corporate collections. Proceeds from the sale of Hsiung’s work will be donated to “Partners in Health”, the Boston based organization founded by Dr. Paul Farmer and others that provides health services to the poor all over the world.

The Gallery at First Parish is located at 349 Boston Post Road in Weston. For more information or directions, please call the church at 781-893-7798.