Touching Landscape Painting - "Still Water"

Several years ago, while traveling to Seattle, I encountered an unusual man-made lake, whose smooth surface was dotted with numerous bleached tree stumps, scattering across large swatches of the water surface. These turned out not to be tree stumps, rather relics or ruins of former workers’ dormitory sheds, which were abandoned and flooded with the change of the industries. The moving and melancholic image of the disappeared past haunted me ever since, and later the stumps-dotted lake and the ghost town underneath became the subject of my landscape oil painting Still Water, aiming to capture the poignancy of the sight. 

Still Water
Oil on Canvas
30” x 40”
Completed in 2020

 

Originally posted on matthewfelixsun.com 

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Featured Painting “Mirage” – A World of Ambiguity

My Mirage, a fantastic painting, was based on a vision visited me when I was falling asleep but with enough mental presence to get up to make quick notes – a distant town, whose outlines barely discernible, in the manner of those commonly seen in old Dutch or Flemish landscape paintings, overwhelmed by several enormous and boldly sketched black feathers floating above the sky. Behind those dark and somewhat ominous feathers, a delicately pretty pale blue sky flashed through persistently. Yet, despite the seemingly menace, those dark feathers also looked rather protective and comforting. A world of ambiguity.


Mirage
Oil on Canvas
22" x 28"
Completed in 2016

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Originally posted on matthewfelixsun.com

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Another Batch of Drawings in Ink and Watercolor

Last weekend, I did more drawings to better utilize my time, while waiting for my painting ideas to mature and my paints to dry.

I was mostly interested in creating certain atmosphere than trying to present a detailed snapshot of scenery.

 
Watercolor Storm 1 & 2


Ink Drawing Storm


Ink Drawing - Pillar


Ink and Watercolor Lilies

Below is the compilation of these five drawings:

June Exhibit at City Art Gallery (San Francisco) Reported by ArtBusiness.com

I just found out there was a brief reporting by ArtBusiness.com, of the June Exhibit at City Art Gallery, San Francisco, which I participated.

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Though no review was written for the show, it is nice to be listed. Thank you, Artbusiness.com.

Melancholy / 憂鬱 on the Media

Melancholy / 憂鬱
Originally uploaded by Matthew Felix Sun

Someone called my attention to ArtSlant's listing of 3 June - 27 June show at City Art Gallery, San Francisco, where this painting was the featured artwork. It was a pleasant surprise, just as when I was told that it was the featured artwork on San Francisco Chronicle's art listing section "96 Hours" on 4 June 2009.



In case the ArtSlant's website changes, one can visit the cached page at: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:E-XHluwDnMsJ:www.artslant.com/sf/events/show/53674-city-arts-queer-show-for-june. Apparently, ArtSlant also created a profile page for me and readers can see it at: http://assets0.artslant.com/sf/works/show/132578?print=1.