Splashed‑Colour & Literati Painting
Original splashed‑colour landscapes — mineral pigment, ink, and silk, drawn back into mountains.
In the literati tradition
Unique work · 2024
Clear Autumn over the Wu Gorge
Malachite green and azurite are poured across the silk, then coaxed into ridgelines, drifting cloud, and the cinnabar blaze of an autumn forest. A single sail crosses the gorge below — small against ten thousand feet of mountain, as the old painters intended.
Lineage
The tradition the atelier paints from — a few Song and Yuan masterworks we return to, drawn from the National Palace Museum’s open collection.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Huang Gongwang · Yuan dynasty, 1350 · Handscroll, ink on paper
National Palace Museum · 富春山居圖
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Early Spring
Guo Xi · Northern Song, 1072 · Ink & colour on silk
National Palace Museum · 早春圖
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
Fan Kuan · Northern Song, c. 1000 · Ink on silk
National Palace Museum · 谿山行旅圖
Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys
Li Tang · Song dynasty, 1124 · Ink & colour on silk
National Palace Museum · 萬壑松風圖
Images: National Palace Museum, Taipei — Open Data (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons. Shown here as the classical lineage the atelier studies — these works are not for sale.
To paint a mountain is to let the ink decide where the clouds will rest.
Silk and Ink Atelier works in the splashed‑colour manner — malachite and azurite poured across silk, then drawn back into mountains, mist, and the dry, broken stroke the old masters called flying‑white. Each painting begins as weather and ends as landscape.
Every work is unique, painted by hand on silk or paper, signed and sealed in the studio. Paintings are released one at a time and offered by private enquiry. Visitors are received by appointment.
— Silk and Ink Atelier
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