Emily Shih

Painter / Taiwan

ABOUT

Emily Shih is an artist based in Taiwan. She works in acrylic and watercolor. She has participated in many Taiwan group and solo exhibitions and won many art awards. Her works were also invited to be exhibited in Europe, America, South America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

She was invited in Asian Art Association in July 2021.

Artist Statement

She falls in love with creating art at an early age and has never stopped in the pursuit of this passion. For her, art is about falling in love with something, it’s about the feelings it conjures up inside you.

Emily Shih’s works are inspired by nature's beauty. She loves using rich and vivid color on painting. By piling up different shapes of hue blocks, she transforms the realist world into a bright and splendid world of her own. This is how she praises nature, and a way of self-expression.

By utilizing the bright and saturated colors, she arranges the irregular shapes and various chroma of color blocks alternatively, and simplify the details of the scenery. she would like to show the spatial extensity, rhythm and the impressionism with the colors, and furthermore she hopes to construct new imagery and resonance visually.

Most of her works are depicting natural landscapes, such as sunsets, mountains and rivers, reflections of water, places she has traveled and places she wants to go. In addition, she loves the themes of positive, optimistic and joyful. she wants for people to look at her artworks and feel the same thing that she does- peaceful, happiness, joy and always believing in something good.

Emily Shih believes that artworks can bring people a lot of throbbing of mind, therefore, she wants to use her works to heal people's hearts. In her works, showing the gentle and peaceful harmony, and if, the temperature of brush can comfort lonely in the deep inside heart, she would like to paint all the better, and uses art to color the world.

AWARDS

Member of Chinese International Women Calligraphers and Painters Association.
Member of Art Charity Without Borders NGO.
Ambassador of Taiwan of 2021 EL BICENTENARIO DE AMÉRICA
International Art Exhibition.
Ambassador of Peace (Republic of China) of IV World Summit of the Arts for Peace and Life (Ecuador)
Exhibition Director of 2021 INDO - TAIWAN International Contemporary Art & Calligraphy Virtual Exhibition.
Representative of Taiwan of Another World Is Possible Forever Of Peace 2021 International Art Exhibition.
Coordinator of Taiwan of ART NOSTRUM SAX 2021 International Art Fair in Spain.
Coordinator of Taiwan of 2021 Elixir International Art Exhibition in Syria.
Coordinator of Taiwan of The Collaboration of 7 Countries Global Online Exhibition of Art - Freedom 2021.

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