I am Chinese. My parents are from Hong Kong. They emigrated to England over 40 years ago. After working in Chinese takeaways and restaurants around England, they finally settled in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria in the late 60's. Where they set up their own restaurant.

At the age of 7, I went back to Hong Kong with my family. This was my first time of being in Hong Kong. We lived there for 5 years and that was the time I learned to read and write Chinese.

From my background experience of being born and having lived in 2 very different countries, I have become bi-lingual. When I came back to England at the age of 12, I really struggled with the English language, because the standard of English in Hong Kong is fairly low. I only learned one English word while I was there and that is the word 'Perhaps'.

In contrast, art has always been my favourite subject and visual language skills came very easily to me. In 1996, I went to the University of Central Lancashire to study Fine Art. I am now working as a freelance artist and I am living in Manchester with my youngest sister.

I completed a web design course at WEVH in Manchester in 2001. I have always been fascinated by the possibilities of multimedia and have used and developed these skills widely in various aspects of my work. I hope to be able to continue to develop my skills and to work creatively in this area along with my other art works.

The other reason I like to work in the multimedia industry is because I'm fed up working in Chinese takeaways. It's boring and it gives me wrinkled hands. Although to be honest it pays about ten times as well as working as an artist.