Li-Wei CHEN

Chen Li Wei was born in 1960 in the Shiqiuling Mountain area of Keelung, Taiwan. She is a self-taught amateur female artist known for her unique artistic expression and abundant talent. Chen Li Wei created a technique in oil painting, utilizing delicate brushstrokes, palette knives, impasto techniques, and pointillism to create a distinctive artistic world. The three-dimensional marks and relief-like dynamism on her oil paintings are a celebration of beauty and love, while also providing a positive healing force for the soul.

Since the year 2008, Chen Li Wei has held nearly a hundred touring exhibitions in major cities around the world and has achieved outstanding results among contemporary artists around the world. In 2016, Chen Li Wei was invited to the Louvre to hold an exhibition, she also won the Jury Prize of the French National Association of Fine Arts at the Louvre in Paris, which made her the highest hall of art. In 2017, she won the Jury Unit Prize at the French International Art Salon. In 2019, she won the Tokyo Art Biennale Academic Award in Tokyo. Her unique style of “stacked paintings” made the world know this self-taught painter.

Li Wei grew up in the mountains where she absorbed much of her artistic talent as a visionary artist. She delicates but her extensive three-dimensional palette knife technique is well-known between her art lovers and collectors from all over the world.

Li Wei liked to paint since she was a child without any professional courses. She started as a painter until she was 40 years old. Growing up in a small village surrounded by mountains is the reason she loves nature very much. She said, “My childhood was running on the grassland. There are many flowers and trees around me, just like Alice in Wonderland, that’s why my paintings are all about nature.”

Chen Li Wei had only two painting knives, such as a wall, stacking the layers of paint on the canvas, and painting the love of nature. “I think art is a healing treatment for me. I have turned my fearful heart into a beautiful scenery. I use my own creation and imagination to talk to my heart.”