Before he became an international restaurateur, Michael Chow was a trained and formally accomplished painter. Born in Beijing to a family of theater, Chow moved to London as a teenager and studied art and architecture at Saint Martin's School of Arts and the Hammersmith School of Building and Architecture. As part of the post-war generation of painters who assaulted their canvases, from Jackson Pollock to the combustion painter Alberto Burri in Italy, Chow found modest success, but put his career on hold to open his first Mr. Chow in the Knightsbridge district of London in 1968. After what he describes as "a long radical sabbatical," the artist returns to the studio and awakens the cheerful feeling of expressive painting. Set to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Chow cooks a "recipe" of found household objects into a paint and joyfully lays his assemblage on canvas.

 

Director: Michael Chow. 

Creative Lead: Daniel Gonzalez.

Producer: Richard Green.

Director of Photography: Jacob Mann.

Editor: Jamie Boulton.

Post Production Crew: Anna Baburyan, Gregg Bennett, Paul Bliven, Robert Elliott, Todd Raleigh, Jessica Tardieu. 

Special Thanks: Jin Kim, Deluxe Media. 

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