Ben Lau is the third son of General Lau Tung Choi, the commander of the Sixty-Third Chinese Nationalist Army (circa 1948). Originally from China, Ben Lau was proclaimed the greatest Oriental painter since Hokusai by Knox Martin while still a student at the Art Students League, New York. In Ben’s works there can be found strong calligraphic and poetic elements. He will tell you that the true artist is a natural mediator between beauty and the material world. The ability of alpha seeing is native to him. Such an artist is able to work magic with his subjects. For example, the material apples in Cezanne’s painting and the material sunflowers in Van Gogh’s has transcended to take on a spirituality that cannot decompose and have become timeless.