Paint to Celebrate!
- FanLuArt -
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.
Artist • Bibliophile • Educator
As an artist, traveling is essential to my creative work. Before, I enjoyed solo travel. After being a wife and mom, having family time together and traveling near and far is the best time. I am blessed and grateful to make art. Apart from sketching daily life to record the everyday life experiences and memories of travels, I mainly focus on painting nature-themed to celebrate God's amazing creations in nature. For the mixed media, I use oil paints, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, graphite pencils, colored pencils, crayons, oil pastels, soft pastels, ink, collage, and iPad Procreate. Throughout the prayer and painting process, I am inspired and refreshed by His wonderful Word. God heals me through art and nature. Otherwise, reading books and music is my love, and I love singing, so I spontaneously and intuitively create improvisational abstract paintings. Walking by faith, I now Paint to Celebrate, showing appreciation and gratitude for nature and life because whenever I turn to God, there is real inner peace and joy. God has opened my mind and heart, and I give Him all the thanks and glory. After leaving a full-time job working in the Natural History Museum in January 2016, I came to the USA to start learning painting at age 25. The dream of being an art student came true in God's timing. (However, as it is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived"—the things God has prepared for those who love him. - 1 Corinthians 2:9). It was a calling for me to paint. I believe God as the way-maker qualifies the called, so He has been directing my steps on this faith-based art journey so that I can keep walking in the fruit of the Spirit. It is an important work God gave me, and I cherish every moment of creative practice on progress. (Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.- Isaiah 64:8 For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. -Ephesians 2:10). In September 2017, my first baby boy was born, and I became a Mom. Being a new mother and an emerging artist is a big challenge because I must study hard while pursuing my second master's degree and raise a child simultaneously. Throughout my journey, I know that I can do nothing without God. The traveling and painting journey let me experience the healing process, and I am also researching nature-based therapeutic expressive arts in education, combining my art practice and teaching. Between 2016 and 2019, I had two solo exhibitions and exhibited in eight art group shows in the San Francisco Bay Area and Florence. I also individually organized three art music salons and exhibitions. Since 2020, I continuously hosted online bilingual music and art storytimes and online art events. Meanwhile, I serve in art education, designing art courses and teaching ages from five to adults. My teaching philosophy is to Sow good seeds to the souls. One of my featured courses is Classic Literature and Art. My husband and I have been teaching our 5-year-old son at home and on the go for the fifth year. God leads our family on homeschooling and roadschooling, which is suitable for us, for our family travels around here and there to teach and work on music and art(ministry). I live with my husband and son in Alameda, a cozy island city in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
留美纯艺绘画硕士&留英管理与组织创新理学硕士
25岁的时候,我从博物馆全职工作辞职,只身一人来到美国学习绘画。我依然是幸运的,因为在合适的时间,我的学习绘画的梦想虽迟但不晚的,刚刚好的实现了。我很感恩在我心中念念不忘的理想,也终照进现实,闪闪发光。勇敢的跨出去,真正的开始成为自己。需要放下过去的很多,更是不断突破和发展自己去迎接更多的挑战。一定徘徊或迟疑在很多时候,但仍然继续坚持的背后,是绘画已然成为我的日常密不可分的习惯养成,不单单只是最初时的绘画热情,一以贯之的始终都有上帝给我的绘画呼召和应许。坚持并不是一件难事,清晰了解并且确信自己为什么做这件事情的原因,是更为重要的。而我很感激的是,在信仰与艺术的道路上,一直有上帝与我同行,因着祂的恩典与祝福,我也可以成为祝福的管道,是光是盐,上帝预备我成为我应当成为的人,这一路,我仍然持续的在学习和实践,在成长在进步,在付出在给予的同时也收获满满~我很庆幸,在我的绘画里,我可以充分的去表达任何一面的我自己以及在当下让我心里有感动和有兴趣的绘画主题,因为一切的丰盛的创意灵感的活水泉源有 神亲自浇灌。我很感恩,我有充分的自由去绘画实验与创作,去体验生活和阅读好书,去自然里散步与观察。感恩,神对我这么好,让我行走和旅居在这个世界,用画笔去记录和欢庆;因着祂的爱,让我福杯满溢(诗篇 23:5);藉着那加给我力量的(腓立比书4:13),让我能够持续分享与传递——平静安稳和幸福喜乐的祝福。感谢赞美荣耀归给 神!
“Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.”-1 John 3:18 (GNT)
"Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does. Give yourselves to the gifts God gives you. " -1 Corinthians 14:1 MSG
“Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies”-Philippians 4:9 MSG
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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