Ho’s artistic world is an intuitive, impressionistic look back at country life wherein he adds lyricism to the daily routines of the countryside, casting himself as a romantic and earnest story-teller. Simple paradigms of the environment and rural culture are revealed through recurring images such as rattan cottages, water vases, haystacks, coconut trees, housewives cooking in the open air, buffaloes, herdsmen, rice field, and the like. These vivid, emotionally-charged motifs evoke the peaceful and constant rhythms of rural life. His work incorporates many of the bright, raw colors abundant in the countryside. His often wild, somewhat scratchy brushwork is rich with colors that almost seem to be moving, giving an optical vibration to the surface of his canvases.
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