Xiaomin Mina Zhang is a Chinese artist and poet based between Australia and China. She is among the few contemporary female painters working within the visual language of traditional Literati painting. Zhang studied at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and spent more than a decade working as a tapestry designer, a practice that continues to inform the textural sensitivity of her artwork.
Beginning with the landscape tradition shaped by Binhong Huang, Zhang evolved from the delicate and conventionally aesthetics often associated with classical Chinese painting. Her artistic and literary development deepened under the guidance of the poet and painter Outing Wu, from whom she learned both cí (詞) poetry and landscape painting.Today, her work interweaves these traditions into a new personal visual philosophy that bridges cultures and languages.
章小溟 字箫溟,号拭灯女史.艺术家,词人,是目前为数不多的女性山水画家. 从事图案设计工作十数年.曾进修于中国美院,然此学业,多为生存之技,与其向往传统,沉浸国粹,或无甚干系. 初学山水,以黄宾虹为入门,脱去闺阁笔墨纤弱之习.从词坛名宿,画家吴藕汀先生学填词学山水. 登岱顶,入雁荡,客常山,宿西海,泛太湖,亦不少游历. 江南山色,宁静清逸,平和滋润,一派天真.小溟生于斯,长于斯,心有所向,意有所归,化而为其词画之境. 遍访书画名迹,审美意趣往往人弃我求,幽心独往. 对于追赶时流而惟恐落伍;标榜创新而不求笔墨;出奇出怪而崇山峻岭;诸端种种,皆性情难舍. 以为秉赋意趣,最适传统,故不避"复古"之嫌。
Painter | Poet
CONTACT
xiaominminazhang@gmail.com