Feng Shi

Figurative Landscape painting -Este Castle

2017

Feng Shi, born in Shanghai in 1990, professional painter. In 2009, he studied in the painting department of the school of fine arts of Shanghai Normal University. After graduating from the University in 2013, in September of the same year, he entered the studio of Giovanni Chiapello in the painting department of l'accademia Di Belle arti...

Zhang Lili oil paint on canvas 30 x 40cm dated 2019 Zhang lili was born in Hunan, China. She received her MA from Central Academy of Fine Arts in China in 1996.

Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back "Incanto" or the enchantment of shifting "Nicolas Kennett revisits the organic world through painted and sculpted matter. He oscillates b...

My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...