My work is focused primarily on floral subject matter. For the past several years, I have been interpreting flowers from photos I have taken, and am always so pleased when I can create colorful images on my paper. I am drawn to flowers, because of the dynamic changes present in the petals as they overlap one another and define space. Georgia O’Keeffe said “When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.” I want to give that world to someone else… Nobody really sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time – and to see takes time… So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.”

 

Recently, I have been experimenting with acrylic as well as more opaque variations of watercolor in my work, but I have considered transparent watercolor my primary medium since I began painting. I am interested in the tradition of watercolor most associated with drawing. I have preferred transparent watercolor, because its character allows for a wonderful blending of spontaneity and control.I wanted to focus my training on watercolors only because I feel I can use more imagination from my heart when painting watercolors. My previous work had been more controlled and precise while my more recent compositions have taken on more expression and experimentation. I now find myself re-interpreting a number of artistic statements that have reference to twentieth century art forms more so than the historical or cultural elements of my Chinese homeland and influence.