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zi ling
Name:
zi ling
Country where you live:
- United Kingdom
City where you live:
- Bath
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Zi Ling is a visual artist based in Bristol and Bath. She was born to the Chinese painter HuiTao Lin, a pioneer of the 85 New Wave Movement. Since the age of four, she received formal training from him in drawings.
“When I am working, I believe in unconscious, allowing myself to freely during the process and enjoy any ‘accident’. I believe this ‘organic’ activity, rather than a ‘rational’ method. “
She is specialising in water-based medium experimenting with Portraiture, surrealism figurative paintings, and dance theatre project. Inspired by photography, surrealism, human anatomy and dreams. She is trying to combine figures, colour and marks with a different vision. In her works, paintings are portrait or figurative within a surreal setting, containing strong concepts of dreams, Asian tradition, fantasy and diversities. She has always been interested in applying ordinary things in an unusual context.
Sea Level
Surrealism portrait, inspiration from dream , water-based medium
Portrait Z
Surrealism portrait, inspiration from dream , water-based medium & collage
Turkish Delight yellow
Portrait of a local chef from Istanbul, water-based medium
Hat
Portrait from a local hat shop owner, England, water-based meduim
Red Nose
Abstract Portrait, water-based medium on paper
Bio:
Zi Ling is a visual artist based in Bristol. She is the winner of Cass Art Prize (2019), DAC Beachcroft Space Prize (2018), Frank Herring Easel Award (2018), First Prize of Leathersellers Award (2016), and the Rosemary & Co. Prize (2015) from the Princess Michael of Kent. She is also a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Ling was born to the Chinese painter HuiTao Lin, a pioneer of the 85 New Wave Movement. Since the age of four, she received formal training from him in drawings.She has trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Chelsea College of Arts and Central Academy of Fine Arts China.
Her works have been presented at Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal West of England Academy, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, Wells Art Contemporary, Chester Art Fair, National Art Museum of China, Chelsea Old Town Hall, St-Martin-in-the-Fields, World Stage Design Quadrennial, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Lynn Painters-Stainers Prize, The Columbia Threadneedle Prize: Figurative Art Today and Sadler's Wells Theatre.
