His vases, ashtrays, jewelry boxes, brush holders, seal cases, and other utensils fuse the decorative and functional aspects of primitive art, while the animals and people he depicts there seem almost alive, brought to the surface through Chen's art of the knife.
一些小小的器物，像花盆、煙灰缸、飾物盒、筆筒、印章盒等，依然融合了原始藝術實用及觀賞的兩面，使人覺得原來這中間的動物及人們就是這樣生活著的，陳炯輝只是用「木道」將它浮現出來。