Jeunlung Man is a Hong Kong-born artist based in Madrid, who draws not what the world looks like, but what it feels like when stripped of color and seen through the quiet clarity of form.
Born with moderate to severe color vision deficiency, Jeunlung has never perceived colors as others do. But rather than being a limitation, this condition became the foundation of his visual language. Deprived of color, he developed an extraordinary sensitivity to form, line, contrast, and light—elements that became the pillars of his art.
To Jeunlung, color can obscure, distract, or decorate—but form reveals. His work is an act of seeing otherwise—an alternative gaze that finds truth in the structure of things. Every drawing is a meditative act of tracing presence: one line at a time, one shadow at a time.
His signature style, what his audience call Monochrome Lyricalism, is a blend of East Asian ink philosophy, scientific botanical drawing, and contemplative observation. He brings to his compositions a devotion to detail, an awareness of absence, and a profound sense of intimacy with his subjects.
In his world, nature is not passively observed—it is deeply conversed with. He treats each petal’s fold, each vein in a leaf, as a script written by time. His flora is not merely decorative; it is emotional, psychological, autobiographical.
For Jeunlung, drawing is not about reproduction—it is about revelation.
He believes: black and white are not a lack of color, but the presence of truth.
His colorblindness has become his insight. What others may overlook, he sees more clearly: the curvature of a stem, the rhythm of shadow, the trembling of space between forms.