Juliette Shen

Julie Shen is a visual artist whose artistic talents in painting and collage were discovered at very tender age at school in Taiwan. Ever since being discovered and known as “the artist” in her class, she was encouraged by her talents and curiosity to explore the possibility of expression through brushes and palette. In 1994, in order to further her “hobby” into a career, she moved to US to pursue higher education in art. Graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from University of Massachusetts Amherst, she goes on exploring the motifs and techniques on her own as well as participating in workshops and exchanging opinions with other artists. It is her strongest desire to travel all over the world for shows to learn the expressions of other artists from different culture and social backgrounds. She has traveled extensive to Europe and South East and Far East Asia in relate to search for interpretation of art and soul. She believes that it is the education and cultural heritage which shine through an artist makes an art work spiritual and filled with soul.

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.