Weihua Zhu
Weihua Zhu was born and raised in China, and later moved to Japan. She now lives in Columbia, USA. These experiences laid the basis for her lifelong concern with cultural diversity. She first discovered her God-given talent when she won an art award in 7 years old. Her mediums includes watercolor, ink and acrylic on canvas. Much of her work revolves around figure work, animals and Chinese characters. She exhibits her artwork in Columbia Art League, Memorial Student Union and The Montminy Gallery.
Artist Statement: I am seeking my inner bridge between the Western and Eastern. I have practiced Chinese calligraphy since childhood. By using acrylic paint as medium, I try to talking about a correlation between stories and symbols, a try to expressing my abstract language on the canvas. I understand my own traditions and reconstruct the relationship between myself and the contemporary world. It takes me a lot of visionary strength to enact words that evolving into a mountain scape, evoking parallels with Classical Chinese landscape painting in pen and ink. The simplicity of technique and arrangement allows my paintings to achieve an abstract and pure visual effect. My artworks are seen as a compensation, poems of homesickness.
