Guanting Li: Harmonies Art Exhibition at LDFA
Harmonies brings together a selection of figurative and landscape paintings by Guanting Li, inspired by both Chinese and Western art traditions and experiences. Showing at Lauraine Diggins Fine Art throughout April and May 2025, these atmospheric paintings, from large scale scrolls to more intimate artworks, ask the viewer to quietly consider and contemplate the depictions of transcendent harmony. Preview the artworks and download the illustraed catalogue on our website www.diggins.com.au
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Venue: Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
Address: 5 Malakoff Street North Caulfield VIC 3161 Australia
Date: 12 April - 31 May 2025
Time: Please email us to confirm open times
Ticket: Free
Web: https://www.diggins.com.au/exhibition/guanting-li-harmonies/
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Address: 5 Malakoff Street North Caulfield VIC 3161 Australia
Date: 12 April - 31 May 2025
Time: Please email us to confirm open times
Ticket: Free
Web: https://www.diggins.com.au/exhibition/guanting-li-harmonies/
: https://www.facebook.com/LauraineDigginsFineArt/
: https://www.instagram.com/lauraine_diggins_fine_art/
Request Image Contact: ausart@diggins.com.au
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Guanting Li Harmonies art exhibition at Lauraine Diggins Fine Art
Guanting Li’s art is anchored in the history and traditions of Chinese painting with an elegant use of calligraphic line. His paintings using ink on rice paper range from large scale scrolls to more intimate artworks and celebrate the majesty and beauty of nature. Moving to Australia over 20 years ago, the impact of the bushland surrounding his studio in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne inspiring more gestural brushwork and a freer use of colour.
Li expresses the aim of his painting is to “convey a sense of life’s energy” and to capture the joy that he finds in the beauty of nature. Humans are depicted in commune with each other or with nature, often mere spectators, small scale figures against the grandeur of mountains and waterfalls. Other works celebrate flora and fauna in a more straightforward style, birds sheltering together in a shrub; koalas on a branch; flowers in a vase; the rich colour of autumn leaves; streams running over rocks; delicate lotus petals – perceptive observations of the harmonious beauty of landscape.
The artworks in the exhibition are a harmonious fusion of east and west; of the traditional and contemporary; of calligraphic black line and colour, both subtle and strong; a mix of quietness and the sublime. These strands all come together in Mr Li’s painting, in a scale of harmonies.
Nearly 40 paintings on display throughout April and May at LAURAINE DIGGINS FINE ART in North Caulfield.
Preview the exhibition and download the illustrated catalogue on our wesbite www.diggins.com.au
Li expresses the aim of his painting is to “convey a sense of life’s energy” and to capture the joy that he finds in the beauty of nature. Humans are depicted in commune with each other or with nature, often mere spectators, small scale figures against the grandeur of mountains and waterfalls. Other works celebrate flora and fauna in a more straightforward style, birds sheltering together in a shrub; koalas on a branch; flowers in a vase; the rich colour of autumn leaves; streams running over rocks; delicate lotus petals – perceptive observations of the harmonious beauty of landscape.
The artworks in the exhibition are a harmonious fusion of east and west; of the traditional and contemporary; of calligraphic black line and colour, both subtle and strong; a mix of quietness and the sublime. These strands all come together in Mr Li’s painting, in a scale of harmonies.
Nearly 40 paintings on display throughout April and May at LAURAINE DIGGINS FINE ART in North Caulfield.
Preview the exhibition and download the illustrated catalogue on our wesbite www.diggins.com.au