Fall Preview - Inspirations from Yun Shouping

Yun Shouping, also known as Nantian, was a Chinese calligrapher and painter. He was a major artist of the early Chinese Qing dynasty. 

Yun was born to a prominent but impoverished family in Wujin, Jiangsu province. He excelled in his classes and was expected to enter into the civil service, but his family could not afford it. Instead, he devoted himself to art; as early as the age of eight he was composing poetry on lotus blossoms. In his early life, he made a living painting landscapes.

We found beauty in several scroll painted by Yun Shouping.  With meticulous attention, prints have been digitally remastered and reinterpreted into a fabric form.  Weaving flowers and leaves on a sand background, bouquets in an oriental garden come alive and dance in delicate movement.