Brush Magic - Jinghua Gao Dalia

Monday, October 5, 2009

Water Music

6" x 8" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com

I draw "birds and flowers" and landscapes as well. People would ask me which one is my favorite? I think that both styles represent nature's magnificence. If I can capture its spirit well, they each give me joy and peace.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Fragrance at My Window

6" x 6" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com

Every year the magnolia blossoms beautifully, it fills the air with pure fragrance. I used to sketch them under the tree while I soaked up its beauty and fragrance.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Among the Flowers

Among the Flowers (c) 2009
6" x 6" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com

Everyday I indulge in my painting world, it gives me such a peace, satisfaction and happiness while I am painting. I am sure this "mood" will develop even deeper, I am curious and looking forward to it.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

My Garden Friends

6" x 6" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com
SOLD

Trees are changing colors again, autumn is here and summer is gone. Four seasons' colors are just so clear in new England, I wonder if more artists here than other regions.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Baltimore Oriole--Splendid Garden

Baltimore Oriole--Splendid Garden (c) 2009
6" x 6" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com

I just finished a lot of summer work and school starts. Weather is getting cooler and cooler. It seems that the summer hasn't really started and autumn silently comes. Time flies so fast, I must use it well.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Carolina Chickadee--Afternoon Treat

Carolina Chickdee-Afternoon Treat (c) 2009
6" x 6" watercolor
jhdalia@gmail.com

Monday, September 7, 2009

Bamboo Stream

6" x 6" watercolor

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Landscape painting is fun to do, it tells a story. Actually, it tells as many stories as there are people to look at it!

An Artist's Life

I began my art study at the age of nine with my father, Gao Yi-hung, who was a leading Chinese artist and the calligraphy master to Chiang Kai-shek’s son, Chiang Ching-guo, the President of the Republic of China. I also had the unique opportunity to study with some of China’s most outstanding watercolorists.

I received a Fine Arts degree from National Taiwan Normal University and studied in the graduate art program at the University of Hawaii. In 1996, Madam Lien, the wife of the Republic of China’s former Vice-President Dr. Lien Zhan, honored my art exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan.

My paintings have been exhibited at Lincoln Center and the Soho Art Museum, New York; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Bower Museum, California; Currier Museum of Art, NH.; and the DeCordova Museum, MA. At the Copley Society of Boston, the oldest art society in the

U.S.

, I was the first Chinese artist to be honored with both a solo exhibition and a Master Workshop program. I have been frequently interviewed by the various news media. My paintings have been widely exhibited and awarded in prestigious venues and collected internationally for over three decades.

I use traditional Chinese brush painting techniques to paint landscapes, birds and flowers, and figures in either detail or free style. My watercolor paintings move between classic and contemporary Chinese concepts. I am also interested in the use of color from a Western perspective. Further, I freely incorporate Western concepts of composition, light, shadow, perspective, and color to explore space and to develop bolder compositions.

Each of my paintings exists as a poetic expression of the interaction between space and form. My subjects are those of traditional Chinese nature painting and the balance between the fundamental forces of Yin (female, passive, dark, mystical) and Yang (male, active, light, rational). I see Nature in this traditional sense, not as a “still life,” but in its most profound relationship to humankind as the sustainer of life and the source of life’s deepest meaning.