“Of course, Hongbo’s debt is not only to Chinese art but to Western art as well. A thoroughly 21st century painter, he is the product of Eastern and Western art equally. If he inheres the two thousand years of his forerunners’ painting, he also embraces several centuries of European and American realism, tonalism, impressionism, expressionism, and abstraction. Traditional Eastern and modern Western landscape painting share a devotion to the emotional force of painted space, a recognition that the effect natural space has on us is the result of extra-visual response. We don’t just see the landscape, we feel it, we breathe it, and Hongbo is the latest painter to remind us of that”.  

                                                                                               - Peter Frank  

                                                      International art critic, curator, and poet