My work relates to Chinese calligraphy and Chinese ink painting. The brushstroke motifs from Japanese calligraphy - Enso and the splash-ink style of Chinese painting have given me a lot of inspiration and make me realize the potential of the brushstroke movement. Enso is a painting method that focuses on how to make the brush strokes circle through the movement of the body. The method relates to Japanese Zen philosophy, which is characterized by a minimalism born from Japanese aesthetics. The incomplete circle symbolises movement and development. When the circle is closed, it represents perfection, akin to Plato's perfect form.
My major at BA level was in oil painting. I found that Chinese ink painting expresses “space” in a different way to Western painting. Poetic expression is an understanding of space in Chinese ink painting, mainly reflected through different ways of moving brushes. My work examines how to combine the traditional Chinese painting method and philosophy of Japanese painting within the real
