Art to inspire. Art for healing.
Sow good seeds to the souls.
- FanLuArt -
Art to inspire. Art for healing.
Sow good seeds to the souls.
- FanLuArt -
Artist • Bibliophile • Educator • Wife • Mother
Drawing and painting have always been attractive to me as an interest and leisure hobby since childhood. It was very comfortable for me to draw and paint naturally. I have always dreamed of majoring in art and doing art-related work. However, my mom, who holds traditional thinking, did not allow me to study art as a major to make art a career because I was excellent in academics. I was from a family who used to influence and impact me a lot; my mom is a primary school teacher who has been devoted to her teaching career for over 30 years, while my father has been an entrepreneur with his own companies for over 30 years; my parents divorced when I was 12 years old, and my mom also sent me to boarding school for some years, and ever since then, I was raised by my mom mostly in a single-parent but strict family educational environment cultivating me with I was always very responsible and made an extra effort in everything I did, overall in a very positive attitude towards life, but most of the time bury the negative emotions by myself. When I grew up, my habit of self-discipline and high standards also caused me a lot of pressure. Many life issues made me depressed with contradictions psychologically and emotionally, for I finally realized that catering to others and not focusing on myself made me burn out, and I decided to find myself back, courageously and faithfully, trusting my intuition from God's calling.
I see God's perfect timing is always greater than my plan or loss. With a calling from God, I boldly leave a very stable full-time job at the Natural History Museum. I came alone to the USA to become an art student at the age of 25 in the year of 2016. All along my journey, God's grace has been with me, which is full of gratitude. Each step has His best goodwill, for I trust He already has made a way for me and my family. While building up my own family, with the stress of early motherhood with postpartum depression as emotional pressure buried inside of my growth from my family of origin arose to make me face it; meanwhile, my husband also graduated with his PhD in biochemistry and decided to be a musician and music teacher, which made our family life in more complex and challenging mode, relocating many different places, even for that time I was pregnant and after giving birth to my son, while I was simultaneously studying for my second master's degree. Only my husband and I have taken turns caring for our son through the years. We have been homeschooled since my son was born, without sending daycare, preschool, kindergarten, or hiring a nanny or babysitter, or assistant help from grandparents. It was already a miracle; it was hard, but it was worthwhile; the sweetness of the reward is only for the ones who devoted time to care with love for the child, and the great bonding between our son and us is the sweetest reward, for we are dedicated to build up a family together. It is the ultimate beauty; we both did a great job as young parents!
We are still growing with our son; we can do nothing without God. Family life with my husband and our son also heals me. At the same time, I learn as I go each step, for I never had a great role model from the family of origin before to build up and manage a family, so I can only look up to God's wisdom and help all through the way, learn to know myself and be a wife and mother. I enjoy and appreciate our family life together. It is so wonderful for our family to travel here and there together to combine our work in music and art, as well as homeschooling and roadschooling our son as we are on the go, for God is always with us. Praise the Lord for his mercy, grace, and perfect timing, guiding us in living and fulfilling his will; set me free all because of God's amazing grace.
I am blessed to have peace in chaos, for nature and art are therapeutic and heal me; art became a channel for me to learn to express myself with challenging emotions and transform them into positive energy. My art also inspired and energized me again! After years of consistent efforts with burnout and rebuilding in many aspects of life with more wisdom increasing, everything is getting better, with God's goodness showing me everywhere I have been. There were so many breakthroughs and improvements during the years, and I am more than grateful; most importantly, I am very blessed and proud of myself for overcoming many difficulties, for God is always with me. I am thankful for my parent's financial support during my studies abroad, even based on my request to have further education on my own decision and preparation. I am most grateful for having my husband and son always appreciate me, encourage me, accompany me, unconditionally love me with freedom, fully trust me, see me, and understand me, for having a united family has been my childhood dream, and I am living into it!
I am blessed, for I am the beloved child of God. I am also thankful for never giving up on becoming better as a whole person; I am glad to say that I now paint to glorify God and celebrate the happiness and joyfulness in life, for art is a way for me, right now, to express my gratitude, as important as writing and music for me! Instead of being interrupted by the noises from outside, I now gradually keep calm and peaceful with myself, holding and listening to my inner voice, the whispers of God, which are put into my heart—less douting and blaming myself but increasingly loving myself better, knowing that I am good enough and worthy.
I am grateful to be growing as an innovative and versatile artist with a lifelong learning mindset, more confidence, and self-esteem of my innermost self is being seen by myself I know myself better for living the way I love doing what I am mostly good at and enjoy, not only finding myself back but also I now can live just being myself, also to make a devotion to life, giving back to God the gifts God gave to me, glory God and edify people! No matter where I am, I am grateful to be living out the best of it, for I trust that God's plan is more significant than mine, and I am courageous and strong, standing firm with faith. I enjoy experimenting and working on many art projects and motifs in Fine Art and Illustration and switch freely from small sketchbooks to large canvases. God's word has been refreshing me while I am praying and painting. My inspiration comes from the feelings, emotions, music, imagination, life experiences, travels, walks in nature and towns, and books that enrich my mind and soothe my soul. I have always been passionate about singing and creating intuitive and spontaneous improvisational musical abstract paintings. I have continued to hone my expertise and evolve in utilizing diverse art materials. My flexibility in selecting the most fitting art materials enables me to convey the message of my art projects and subject matter in the styles I am confident with.
Being an emerging artist, an aspiring educator, a wise wife, and a loving mother is all wonderful! I have had solo exhibitions and art group shows. I have also individually organized art and music salons and hosted dozens of online bilingual music, art storytimes, and online art events, illustrating educational books, having my series of painting projects and custom artwork, teaching arts online and on location, design art products based on my original artwork. I am also researching nature-based music and art in terms of well-being from childhood to a lifetime, combining my art practice and teaching. I have devoted much time to developing and designing my number of bilingual, multidisciplinary art courses and teaching, with a deep root of holding faith in education matters, for my teaching philosophy is to Sow Good Seeds to the Souls. I am grateful for the opportunity to practice and serve art communities worldwide, benefiting future generations. Our family serves in music, art ministry, and education, and we are also a homeschooling and road-schooling family for the seventh year. You are welcome to visit our family website: www.FGMusicArt.com
* I have attached a video of our family, as walking in nature with Music and art is a massive element in our homeschooling and road schooling for our son. Nature is an excellent teacher and source of healing, inspiration, and gratitude. The video shows me painting and drawing outdoors while my husband plays Music and our son explores nature. The background music in the video is a worship song for Easter, composed and written by my husband, Dr.Samuel Bai, and our son, Bamboo Bai, sings with us together!
Enjoy where we are on the way to where we are going!
Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again—rejoice!
-Philippians 4:4
My Personal Long-term Projects
Freelance Work Experience
Onsite Art Teaching
Online Art Teaching
Event Organizer Experience
Solo Exhibition
Selected Group Exhibitions
Education
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