Leaving behind a career in finance, Fiona Dong turned to travel and painting as a means of rediscovering the world—and reconsidering the life she once knew.

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Shanghai, where she worked at PwC, embodies the contradictions of her former existence: the relentless rhythm of the metropolis, the promise of stability, and an underlying sense of disorientation. In contrast, Montparnasse in Paris marks the beginning of her artistic awakening, a neighbourhood shaped by generations of artists, including Sanyu, Wu Guanzhong and Zao Wou-Ki, whose legacies continue to resonate with her own journey.

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Through Shanghai by Night, La Grande Chaumière and Café de la Rotonde, Fiona navigates the space between certainty and freedom, memory and possibility—where past and present quietly converge.

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Her paintings become a quiet reflection on the paths taken and those left unexplored.