Etta Chan 陳海雅

Hong Kong actress/artist/craftsman/art teacher/poet, Chan Hoi-ya graduated from the Art Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In March 2013, she published the picture book "Disorder in Cambridge." In 2016, she released another picture book titled "We Are Not Ostriches." Recently, she has been passionate about writing, creating new poetry, essays, and short stories, with works published in Sound Rhythm Poetry Magazine and Big Radish Literary Monthly. She believes that art is anything that provokes thought.

Etta loves the name "Chan Hoi-Ngar" that her mother gave her and cherishes the artistic preferences that her sewing mother passed down to her. She thought she would become a fashion designer, but without much thought, she enrolled in the Art Department at CUHK. During her studies, she did not focus on her creative work and poured all her creative energy into drama, often being careless with her undergraduate assignments, although she performed well in art history.

After graduating, she once believed that she was not capable of drawing. In 2009, amidst a boring job, she started drawing rabbits as the protagonist of her visual diary, and since then, she has not stopped creating.

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香港演員/藝術工作者/手作人/美術老師/詩人。陳海雅畢業於香港中文大學藝術系。二零一三年三月，出版「Disorder in Cambridge」繪本。二零一六年出版繪本「我們並不是鴕鳥」。最近熱衷於寫作，創作新詩，散文及短篇小說，作品於聲韻詩刊及大頭菜文藝月刊發表。她相信藝術是任何令人思考的事物。

Etta 很喜歡媽媽給她起的名字「陳海雅」，也很喜歡當裁縫媽媽遺存給她對藝術的喜好。她以為自己會成為一個時裝設計師，但沒有想清楚的情況下升讀了中大藝術系，在學時期沒有好好用功創作，只埋頭戲劇創作，一切創作的精力都花在舞台劇上，交本科的創作功課總是馬馬虎虎，但讀藝術史倒是成績不錯。

畢業後，一度以為自己是不懂畫畫的。零九年在無聊工作的隙縫中畫兔子，作為visual diary 的主角，之後便没有停下創作。