Wenyan's Story
Wenyan Xu was born in Shaanxi, China. She is a Chinese landscape painter. She learned to paint from her father. She has exhibited in Canada and abroad. She moved to Vancouver in 2018 and has exhibited in international galleries. She is a member of the Chinese Art Association of Canada, the Vancouver Sanwei Art Association and the Federation of Canadian Artists.
Wenyan lives in Burnaby. In 2018, she participated in the Burnaby Stride Festival. Two of her paintings were picked up by collectors. At the same time, she was invited by Mike Hurley, the Mayor of Burnaby, to create a work with the theme of the Burnaby Deer Lake Art Museum. The painting was donated to the City of Burnaby. The story was covered by Altitude Magazine. In 2019, she was interviewed by Vancouver Network Television. In 2020, she participated in a fundraising and charity sale organized by international galleries for seniors homes in Greater Vancouver. Her paintings were donated.
Affiliations: Member of Shaanxi Artists Association, principal of Xiao Huan Flower and Bird Painting Studio and Xu Yisheng Landscape Painting and Sketching Research Institute, and academician of Shaanxi Chang’an Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute.
Wenyan Xu was born in Xian,Shaanxi, China. She is a Chinese landscape painter with Chinese brush, ink, color painting on rice paper. She grows up in Xian Academy of Fine Art. Influenced by her father-a famous painter and environment, she is very interest in art, especially in Chinese tradition ink painting.
Wenyan lives in Burnaby in 2018, the beautiful scene in Vancouver attracts her deeply, especially the variety, strong color in four season. She Adding this strong sense of color to her paintings, “The colors of traditional Chinese paintings are often deep and dark” At the same time, focus perspective is often used in paintings. “Traditional Chinese paintings mostly use scatter perspective”, so her paintings have the characteristics of both Chinese painting and Western painting, which is unique.
She is now a professional painter and has participated in many exhibitions in China and Canada. The works are loved and collected by the audience. Among them, one of her paintings entitled Burnaby Gallery was collected by Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurlly in 2019, and her work “Sit and Watch the Clouds Rise” was collected by collectors in a charity auction held by the International Gallery, and the money was donated to the nursing homes heavily hit by the epidemic. She is willing to show the beauty of nature to everyone with her brush,