When life gives you lemons, I make art.
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Life's unpredictability can be a source of inspiration. I remain dedicated to capturing the essence of resilience with optimism, encouraging others to embrace life’s quirks. My art celebrates the beauty found in the chaos of everyday existence.
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This collection is a playful portrait series where fruits are humanised with micro expressions hinting to everyday idioms relatable to daily life.
Rendered in bold, candy-bright colour, the “Produce” carries mischief in every smirk and side-eye. Together, the works serve a humorous feast about language, likeness, and the very human drama hiding in our every corner of our kitchen — depicting micro-stories in between the journey from farm to table.
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Two Cree-Peas in a Pod 🫛🫛
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
40.6cm x 50.8cmHong Kong
2025 -
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To-may-to, To-mah-to 🍅
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
100cm x 80cmHong Kong
2025 -
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Life’s a “Plant” and Then You “Egg” Out 🍆
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
80cm x 100cmHong Kong
2025 -
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When Life Gives You Lemons 🍋
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
50.6cm x 81cmHong Kong
2025
Works
One Hundred Days of Self Portraits
Mixed Media
Hong Kong
2024
One face, a hundred moods. This daily mirror marathon chronicles every version of me, from “Monday-me” to “made-of-caffeine,” all drawn with disarming honesty.
One Hundred Days of Caricatures
Digital Media
Hong Kong
2023
One hundred tiny distortions of reality, lovingly overruled by a pen. These caricatures bend features, not facts, to reveal the character hiding between the lines.
Quiet Stanzas: Portraits of Poets
Acrylic on canvas
Ink on paper
2017
This series captures poets as living stanzas—quiet and reflective. Each portrait distills a voice into colour. Together, the portraits read like a chapbook of characters, where gaze is lyric and color carries the rhyme.
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About
Born in Kuala Lumpur in 1988 and now lives and works in Hong Kong. Kellyhosy’s work aims to explore the subtle commentary on the quiet resignation of modern life. Her work reveals a delicate balance between playfulness and melancholy, where rounded forms and cheerful colours intersect with exaggerated murky expressions evoke a sense of unspoken societal weariness. Kellyhosy’s creative output ranges from acrylic painting, colour pencil illustrations and Procreate digital illustrations.
Where am I?
Hong Kong
Kuala Lumpur
Here and there…