天池 Tien Chi

名翁天池，字季漁，圓賞樓主人，祖籍常熟，1949年蘇州出生。自幼喜歡黑色，又喜歡徐渭畫風，黄道周書法，喜歡當代德庫寧表現派。1965年拜師吳湖帆、潘天壽、林風眠。1986年跟當時法國藝術批評家史敦珍、藝術家蘇拉日皮埃爾學習「黑畫和水畫」至今。

作品曾多次入選「香港藝術雙年展」(香港藝術館），個展包括「香港藝術家系列：天池」（香港牛池灣文娛中心1996）。曾獲「市政局藝術獎（繪畫——國畫素材）」（香港藝術館1996）。

‪Tien Chi was born in 1949. In 1996 he was awarded the Hong Kong Urban Council Fine Art Award (Chinese Painting). He has participated in many exhibitions, including “the Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition” in 1983, 1987, 1994, 1998, 2001 and 2003; “the Mapping Asia - the 18th Asian International Art Exhibition” held in 2003 in the Hong Kong Heritage Museum; “the 10th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, China” held in 2004 in the Guanshanyue Art Museum in Shenzhen; “the Artists in the Neighbourhood III Launching Exhibition” held in 2005, and “the Contemporary Hong Kong Ink Painting Exhibition” in 2006. He currently resides in Hong Kong.