Fan Shao Hua

Biography

Fan Shao Hua (b.1963) from China is now a Singaporean resident. He graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a B.A, honoured with a M.A. at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Australia and a Ph.D. in Research of Fine Arts at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Besides being the prestigious winner of ‘Painting of the Year Award’ at the 19th UOB Painting of the Year Competition in 2000, Fan has through the years won numerous art awards and held many exhibitions overseas – Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea,Japan, and Paris. He is also a member of Singapore Art Society, Society of Chinese Artists and Japan Modern Arts Association, and been featured in a number of publications such as Mondial Collections Art in Asia, Straits Times Singapore, American International Artist Magazines and Channel News Asia.

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InJanuary 2010 and March 2010 , Fan Shaohua has solo exhibition in theprestigious Shanghai Art Museum and Beijing Art Museum.

Fan Shao Hua held his solo exhibitions in the prestigious Beijing Art Museum and Shanghai Art Museum.

Fan Shao Hua has evolved as an artist; moving effortlessly from one distinct style and excelling in another. Employing a fusion of medium, his canvases employ vibrant hues tempered by bold strokes, marrying contemporary and traditional styles. He merges his western oil painting technique with the dramatic ‘ink splash’ and ‘creased paper background’, found in traditional Chinese ink painting. He paints in a refreshing myriad of colours that are instantly modern and harmonized in a delightful synergy. Developing from his acclaimed portraitures of dignitaries to his Realist paintings imbued with social commentary, Fan now explores Abstract Expressionism and Chinese Ink Painting in his latest series

Fan Shao Hua has not remained complacent and as an artist, has strived to search inwardly and gain inspiration from his surroundings. As such, he has evolved as an artist; moving effortlessly from one distinct style and excelling in another. Developing from his acclaimed portraitures of dignitaries to his Realist paintings imbued with social commentary, Fan now explores Abstract Expressionism and Chinese Ink Painting in his latest series. Fan’s lotus series explores the flower in all its spiritual and philosophical meaning. Fusing Eastern and Western painting traditions, he depicts the beautiful symbolism of the lotus blooming resplendent out of the mud, in spite of its surroundings.

With the background layer in manyworks, the texture is often created by the unexpected gradient of the handmade paper. This creasing-paper technique is found to in traditional Chinese Ink Painting and Fan Shao Hua has fused this with contemporary expressions of masterful brushstrokes.  

In most of Fan’s paintings from the Lotus Series, the image of lotus, depicted with bold and spontaneous strokes of an ink painter with the medium of oil paint, grows out from the chaos of colours,drips and splatters. As the third layer, the lotus flowers, which seem to float above the surface, congenially disrupt the flatness, and points to a cyclical return to the figurative form.

By viewing Fan Shaohua’s works in relation to these Oriental perspectives we can see clearly that his choice of the lotus as the theme in his latest abstract works is magnificent. As the recurrent symbol of purity and beauty, this flower, a subject for innumerable tales and metaphors, appears in not just the culture of the Middle Kingdom, but the rest of Asia as well, like in India and the Middle East. 

Complementing a wide variety of interiors, Fan's work can: illuminate a rustic living room;make a statement on a feature wall at the end of a corridor; add a burst of elation along with the sleek calm of an office or create an oasis in a private bedroom.

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