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Abstract art wins Post title

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Abstract painter Doris Cheng Wai drew deep from her creative well to win the first South China Morning Post Student Visual Artist of the Year Award.

The 17-year-old started making Chinese brush drawings of animals when she was a little girl in Nanhai, Guangdong.

Wai, of St Mary's Canossian College, came to Hong Kong when she was nine and has studied with various teachers.

Her real impetus as a painter came when she was 14 and learned the principles of abstract expression at the Zi Lui Studio.

Her teacher, Lui Wing-lan, taught her that abstract expression knows no limits.

'Its horizon is so wide you can freely create your own dream world within its parameters,' Wai said.

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