Emily Shih

passion. For her, art is about falling in love with something, it’s about the feelings it conjures up inside you. Emily Shih’s works are inspired by nature's beauty. She loves using rich and vivid colours in her paintings. By piling up different shapes of hue blocks, she transforms the realist world into a bright and splendid world of her own. This is how she praises nature and a way of self-expression. By utilizing the bright and saturated colours, she arranges the irregular shapes and various chroma of colour blocks alternatively and simplifies the details of the scenery. she would like to show the spatial extensity, rhythm and impressionism with the colours, and furthermore, she hopes to construct new imagery and resonance visually. Most of her works are depicting natural landscapes, such as sunsets, mountains and rivers, reflections of water, places she has travelled and places she wants to go. In addition, she loves the themes of positive, optimistic and joyful. She wants people to look at her artworks and feel the same thing that she does- peaceful, happiness, joy and always believing in something good. Emily Shih believes that artworks can bring people a lot of throbbing of mind, therefore, she wants to use her works to heal people's hearts. In her works, showing the gentle and peaceful harmony, and if, the temperature of brush can comfort lonely in the deep inside heart, she would like to paint all the better, and uses art to colour the world.