“Growing up in China in the early 2000s, Western culture quietly shaped the way many of us first encountered art. My early training was rooted in traditional European drawing and painting, especially French and Russian academic approaches. Through my parents, I was exposed early to psychology, literature and history, while I later found myself drawn to mathematics, physics and IT. Painting, for me, is where those different ways of seeing intertwine.
Often working from memory rather than relying too closely on reference, I’m interested in what remains after seeing something in person: the atmosphere, distance, light, and the small details that stay in the mind while others fade. I deliberately leave some edges and brushstrokes unsettled, allowing the work to resist being fully explained at first glance, holding the tension between observation and memory, structure and uncertainty.”
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Artist email: johnlzh252art@gmail.com