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■ Luna Chen
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Luna graduated in Fine Art at the Academy of Art University.
Under a prolonged exposure to an artistic atmosphere with her parents working in the interior design business, Luna likes to draw since her childhood and often participates in drawing contests. Being eager to try something innovative, she took various classes to learn pastel, watercolor and ink painting, as well as piano, Zheng zither and dancing; which builds a sound foundation for her arts.
After finished her junior high school, she went to study alone in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has learned quite a lot from her study in foreign countries. Although she did not major in Painting, she still draws from time to time. After being admitted to the Health Science Department of Simon Fraser University, her study was something dissimilar to arts.
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During that time, she felt so lost about the future. Then she met her mentor who told her that the beautiful life is to be engaged in something you love. This makes her resolutely to pursuit for her love in arts; based on this concept, she experiences, appreciates and expresses the wonder of life. Now Luna studies in the Fine Art at Academy of Art University, starting off her further exploration to arts.
In her first oil painting series -- “Colorful Flower on Snowtree”, the theme is the boreal birches, symbolizing her life story about studying abroad. The colorful spring sprouts on branches represent Luna’s love and vivid memories about her homeland. To Luna, a tree, being rooted deep in the earth, is a symbol of solidity, just like a person who stands firmly on the ground. That’s why she uses “tree” as a core symbol for her first series, implying her first thought about art creation: self-discovering.
Luna’s 2018 series is “The Fun of Zoo,” with which she illustrates the joy our animal friends bringing to us.
Luna likes the vitality deriving from distinct and full colors, and to bring out the wellbeing to viewers by integrating romantic fairy tales around the world. During her painting process, her illuminating teacher Mr. Lee Sun-Don’s totemic energy paintings invoke her interests in signs and symbols. She also infuses her impressions from her painstaking efforts in learning multiple languages. From a child-like point of view, Luna transforms her curiosities toward the world into interesting images.
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