2019 Year in Review

 I am honor to have my oil painting “Peace Messenger” selected for display at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art Exhibition "Metro Montage 2019”. My painting "Peace Messenger" was on display throughout the summer.

 My painting "Peace Messenger" in front of the Cobb Museum of Art 2019

 I am excited to be in a new gallery this year. North Park Gallery in located in Marietta, GA

North Park Gallery

My new painting "Dolphin Bay", oil on canvas 30x40". This year I participated in many fine art festivals throughout the southeastern US. It was great meeting friends and new collectors. Some art festivals from 2019:

Inman Park Art Festival

Virginia Beach Neptune Festival

Asheville Fine Art Show

Art in the Park, Marietta

And others

 Cultural trip to Britain and Northern France in September

 Stonehenge, England. Walking around the windy grounds of Stonehenge I instantly felt the energy from the universe..

 British Museum ~Discover two million years of past and human culture.

My favorite exhibit: Dunghuang Frescoes from the Chinese Buddhist Mogao Grottos.

 National Gallery of Great Britain-London 2019. So excited to enjoy these master's paintings myself that I have longtime loved.

Outside the National Gallery with a friend

 Beautiful sunset at Westminster, London, UK

  A stop at Mont St Michel, France. A perfect sunset evening: walk with sheep, watch the sea with seagulls, failed to wait until the tide rose. 

 Mont St. Michel at sunset while parting and looking back, the entire sacred mountain looks like a sacred being practicing ... tranquility, concentration, and energy flow ...

 I am honor to have my oil painting “Garden II” selected for inclusion in the 2020 art calendar by CFM International. In the past 30 years DFM has selected representative artists from company's client countries to produce these beautiful art calendars every year.

 CFM large calendar next to a smaller tabletop calendar.

 My brief artist bio from the CFM calendar for 2020

Southern Society Of Artists 2019 Annual Group Exhibition. This exhibit features a wonderfully eclectic selection of paintings and sculpture by SSA founding members. There will be artwork from emerging artists to longtime professionals and from classical art styles to contemporary leading edge creations.

My oil painting "Blessings" on display at the Southern Society Of Artists 2019 Annual Group Exhibition held at the Abernathy Art Center, Sandy Springs, GA.

 My oil painting "Golden Autumn" on display at the Southern Society Of Artists 2019 Annual Group Exhibition held at the Abernathy Art Center, Sandy Springs, GA.

 My oil paintings "Blessings" and "Golden Autumn" on display at the Southern Society Of Artists 2019 Annual Group Exhibition held at the Abernathy Art Center, Sandy Springs, GA.

Congratulations to Nicole Li, a 15year-old student of Shijun Art Studio, Lilburn, GA, took Third place in the 2019 National Junior Duck Stamp Contest in GA state. 

Congratulations to the Shijun Art Studio student for achieving 1st place GA State award, and 10 other outstanding students that have been selected as school and county winners in the Reflections 2018-19 art contest.

Reflection Art Contest Winners 2018-2019 

A big congratulations to all 7 Shijun Art Studio winners for this year's River of Words art contest! River of Words Art Contest 2019

I am so lucky to have many talented students at Shijun Art Studio. Here are some of the winning artwork from the State Fish art contest 2019, June

Thanks for an amazing 2019! Wish we all have a blessed start to a new year. Hello 2020! Happy New Year! May everyone find their own way and live out their natural joy and abundance! 

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Cultural Trip to Britain and France 2019

 September 2019 was a perfect time to visit the UK.

The day I went to Stonehenge, England, it was the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. A frosty autumn moon shone down upon travelers who walked around the windy grounds of Stonehenge, and instantly felt the energy from the universe...

 The ancient stones of Stonehenge. Gift from master sculptors of a bygone era. 

 The Avon river flows under the Pulteney Bridge through the old Roman town of Bath. Bath is one of the most elegant old towns in the UK. Known for its Georgian architectural style.

 British Museum ~Discover two million years of past and human culture.

My favorite exhibit: Dunghuang Frescoes from the Chinese Buddhist Mogao Grottos.

 British Museum ~ Chinese Collection, 2019, London, UK. Guanyin wood craving

  British Museum ~ Chinese Collection, 2019, London, UK. Guanyin wood carving

 British Museum-Egypt Collection，2019. London, England ... Most of the mysterious Egyptian art is related to religion and eternal life.

 Fresco from Egypt

 Fresco from Egypt

 The "Treasure of the Town Hall"  is the Rosetta stone, which was made in AD.  before 196, the inscription on the monument was written in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian cursive script and ancient Greek, and was used by the ancient king of Ptolemy V. The modern archeologists have the opportunity to compare the various language versions.  After the content, the meaning and structure of Egyptian hieroglyphs that have been lost for more than a thousand years are interpreted.

British Museum ~ Europe Collection~ 2019, London, England ... European art will always be my source of inspiration.

 

National Gallery of Great Britain-London 2019. So excited to enjoy these master's paintings myself that I have longtime loved.

Dutch Portrait

 "The Toilet of Venus" by Diego Velázquez at the National Museum, UK

 "Venus and Mars" (detail) by Sandro Botticelli

 Monet

 Van Gogh

In London with my good friend. We are like two new students in front of a palace of art.

In London with my good friend. The National Museum in the background

 Van Gogh

 On a London street

 Enjoyed traditional English afternoon tea on a sunny and warm day in London.

Cambridge Phantom ~ London, UK 2019. Knowing Cambridge started from Xu Zhimo's "Farewell to Cambridge" ~ "I walked away quietly, just as I came quietly; I waved my sleeves and did not take away a cloud."  I was looking to discover the poet Kangqiao and came to here,  didn't meet Kangqiao, but met a woman performing a bubble blowing at King's College.  In the psychedelic style she plays, the ordinary blowing bubbles bring emotions and stories. They gather like spirits in front of Cambridge's elegant buildings, and change into a dreamlike Cambridge...

 More dreamlike, magical bubbles

 Harry Potter type street in Cambridge

 Regent street in London

Westminster

 Beautiful sunset at Westminster

 Sunset in France ~ 2019, return to the United States from France, stop at Mont St Michel on the way, a perfect sunset evening: walk with sheep, watch the sea with seagulls, failed to wait until the tide rose  Parting and looking back, the entire sacred mountain looks like a sacred being practicing ... tranquility, concentration, and energy flow ...

Relaxing for a moment with Mont St. Michel behind me.

 We shared our walk in the peaceful French countryside with these handsome sheep.

 Daytime at the ancient St. Michel when the tide is out

Amazing and unforgettable sunset at Mont St. Michel. These scene makes for a wonderful end to our European cultural journey 2019

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