La Vie en Rose I-Original-Summer Bloom Series 2024
In 2024, Shizico embarks on a fresh chapter with her new rose garden. The first ten newly planted roses in her Memorial Garden project inspired this series of rose paintings.
For Shizico, colours are the device for emotion in this series rather than painting roses for their real-life hues. For instance, she painted this Double white rose in blue hues, keeping the shrub's shape but transforming its colour. This approach, while challenging, allows her to filter the view from reality to an imaginary landscape. By painting colours this way, Shizico becomes highly sensitive to tones and shapes, rather than habitually matching colours to reality. This self-imposed technique gives her landscapes a touch of magical aura.
It is a testament to her creativity and willingness to push boundaries in advancing her visual language. Fundamentally, Shizico Yi’s practice is grounded in the history of art; her work is rooted in a lineage that spans from El Greco to Van Gogh to the eastern master like Hiroshige.
About Summer Bloom Series:
The Summer Bloom series began in 2022 when Shizico Yi celebrated the season by painting en plein air in her garden. In 2017, Shizico lost her beloved dog, Favor, after a four-year battle with neurological disease. Shizico began gardening in 2015 to create a healing space for Favor. After his passing, the garden evolved as Favor Memorial Garden, a tribute to his precious presence; she called the project Constant Gardener. The garden and this art project continue evolving to this day.
Alongside gardening, Shizico began creating a series of drawings and plein-air paintings in this garden, capturing the blooms and seasons to preserve them in time. Like a modern-day Monet, Shizico Yi is reaping the rewards of her labour as it inspires her while serving as a living studio, where her art grows alongside nature and where she makes her own kind of landscapes.
- “La Vie en Rose I-Summer Bloom Series 2024”
- Materials: Oil, Gesso, Acrylic and moulding medium on canvas
- Measurement: Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)x Width: 15.56 in (39.5 cm) x Depth: 0.6 in (1.5 cm)
- Reference Code: GSYSY- SB-LaRoseI2024
- Artist's Lifetime Warranty for the original artwork.
About the Artist
Shizico Yi is available for commission.
Dr. Shizico Yi is a UK artist working on installations, films and paintings; the documentary nature of her work often concerns about the loss, repetition, the everyday subject and memories .
With design and film background, Shizico combines her interests making installation projects which relate to artist's personal life in relation to the society and human condition at large.
Shizico Yi holds a PhD in Fine Art awarded by UEL, UK 2017; she had completed a Master in Fine Art with a BA in Womenswear from UAL. London. She is also the Winner of Women Film Makers: Best Shorts Competition 2013 Los Angels. USA.
Note:
-We offer you Artist's Lifetime Warranty for the original artwork. Please keep the Certificate as the proof, if in need, just contact us for the conservation process.
-Frames in the pictures are not included. If you need advice on framing, just give us a shout.
