Yu Zhong Wen lives and works 100 km east of Beijing in a rural community of artists. His works engage with natural subjects, most often landscapes of the North China plains. Yu evokes elements of Chinese traditional painting in a contemporary context. His series of oil on paper focuses on themes of countryside, rocks, trees, and grass - drawing the viewer into an emotive realm of landscape that conveys the feelings from which the subject matter emerges. His oil works on canvas are often monumental in scale but intimate in experience as they explore the interaction between people and the rural landscape in which they live. After many years of refinement, he engages his canvases with brush strokes that upon close examination remind one of the abstract forms and emotion of Jackson Pollack while achieving a collective affect not unlike John Singer Sargent or other 19th Century Hudson River School artists. The works of Yu achieve an astonishing unity of form solidly founded in a synergy between Chinese traditional subjects reconsidered with contemporary technique and relevance. undefined

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