Blowing When I am staying home without external and social activities for months during Covid-19 in Singapore, the city has the highest rate of Covid’s cases in South East Asia, I miss my oversea travelling trips. I create a series of paintings “a moment during Covid-19” and “Blowing” is part of it. Poppies was selected for the artwork for the story behind it and the well-known poem “In Flanders Fields”. “Blowing” is the emotional description of how the beautiful poppies rise from the mud and dirt, as my hope grows strong during the lock-down situation. Techniques Wet on Wet (Alla Prima) was mainly applied to create the realistic touch of the strong lighting and the depth of field to focus the flower vines and blur the further external background. The artworks is fully hand painted. ... Xem thêm
Phan Hien begins to put her mind to long term leisure Oil painting as she paints for months during the Singapore national Circuit Breaker for Covid-19 in 2020. She cultivates a deep passion in nature and greenery as she enjoys living in Singapore, which is known for being a green city. She also brings about romance autumn from Hanoi, her birth and childhood city in the 80s. The nature and floral ideas are general themes in her recent works in 2019 to 2020. Japanese woodblock scenery was a main interest in her earlier leisure paintings from 1998 to 2013 when she studied at Hanoi Architectural University where fine arts is one of her major subjects and practiced in Construction industry.. Her latest works show strong influence from Contemporary Realism and Photo-realism genres and personal intention to bring the “depth of field” effect well-known in modern photography into her paintings. As she develops her “Alla prima” and blending techniques, her paintings turn from more “Artsy” with “Impasto” strokes to a more subtle and realistic feel. The colorful touch of primary colors harvested from Japanese woodblock art is indeed presented in all paintings that also depicts her personal character which treasures the beauty in life through all up and down.
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