Emily Shih

Emily Shih is an artist based in Taiwan. She works in acrylic and watercolor. She has participated in many Taiwan group and solo exhibitions and won many art awards. Her works were also invited to be exhibited in Europe, America, South America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

She falls in love with creating art at an early age and has never stopped in the pursuit of this 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 color on painting. 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 colors, she arranges the irregular shapes and various chroma of color blocks alternatively and simplify the details of the scenery. she would like to show the spatial extensity, rhythm and the impressionism with the colors, and furthermore she hopes to construct new imagery and resonance visually.

She thinks painting is not about blindly copying reality, but about seeking harmony in relationships. The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. She thinks that there are colors and lightness in nature incredible riches, which depend on whether one carefully and seriously observes. She personally loves the outline image style, its high contrast and simplify the image to make it look like a construction by rough cut sheets of colored paper, she uses this style in her paintings, in order to make the overall visual harmony, so need to all sorts of color to mediate the restructuring, let paintings finally present a colorful and coordination effect.

Emily Shih doesn’t want to copy nature. She doesn't think any color is absolutely good or bad, only whether the relationship between color and color is right or not. If the right color and volume are placed in the right position, the beauty and space can be created, which is the unique style of her works.

Most of her works are depicting natural landscapes, such as sunsets, mountains and rivers, reflections of water, places she has traveled and places she wants to go. In addition, she loves the themes of positive, optimistic and joyful. she wants for 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 color the world.