Added Oct 7, 2009
Julie Shen utilizes the vocabulary of visual art to describe her perceptions of the world, her passions and deeper consciousness. Each colors and brush strokes are selected to depict her observation in life and thoughts. This is her creative way of communication from her insight – her thoughts, emotions, experiences, etc. to the audience and exchanges her subconscious with her audience’s opinions. Therefore, through her landscape abstract, her audience is given a chance to explore her mind and inner world and to tell her theirs.
Her landscape abstract has transformed from her impressionistic landscape paintings. As an impressionist, she explored how the light and shadow change the shape of her objects and thus new shapes evolved. Now, her impressionism has been freed from forms and definitions of shapes and edges of subjects. They have evolved from merely coping from the landscape to a more conceptual expression in order to capture the essence of beauty and to describe her point of view. In other words, she paints what is in her mind instead of what is in front of her. Therefore, her landscape abstract has an addendum of her emotional contents to the visual impact which the nature provides.