This week Ama Huen Ning hopes to jazz things up and learn from new experiences
Painter/singer Ama Huen Ning says she didn't choose to become an artist. As the youngest daughter of an art lover and a singer, Ama - who started drawing as a toddler and began composing music at the age of seven - inherited her parents' creative streak.
'Normally I create art when I feel blue,' says Ama, 25. 'It's like there are some questions stuck in my head and I want to sort them out via singing and painting. Art is like therapy to me.
'Also I want to capture in my paintings and music the things that people are too busy to appreciate in their daily lives.'
Ama studied fine arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong following a year-long stint at Elmira College in New York.
During her university days she came across an album by Chet Baker - a jazz singer who also plays the trumpet - and instantly fell in love with jazz.
'My heart aches when I listen to jazz. It has the power to unearth your inner emotions and it inspires you to think,' says Ama, who sang in a jazz band at the Fringe Club while continuing to paint and hold exhibitions.
