Artist Statement | Kunchok Ma

Kunchok Ma is a Chinese-born artist based in Vancouver, Canada.

As a painter, director, and practicing Buddhist, his work is rooted in a deep engagement with inner experience and the visual language of the sacred. Informed by Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, He creates paintings that meditate on impermanence, transformation, and the architecture of consciousness.

His visual practice is centered on oil painting—through color, rhythm, and symbolic form, I explore the invisible structures of the inner world. Abstracted bodies, animal archetypes, and geometries appear frequently in my work, drawing from both traditional iconography and intuitive vision. The image becomes a threshold between form and formlessness, discipline and dissolution.

Color in his paintings is not decorative—it is experiential. Vivid reds signal vitality, desire, and karmic entanglement; saturated greens offer breath, healing, and stillness. He aims to evoke not only a visual sensation, but an inner resonance—a state of contemplation.

As both an artist and seeker, He approaches the canvas as a sacred space. Each painting is a gesture of return—toward clarity, toward presence, toward what cannot be fully named.

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