Sha Wenli

Assistant Craft Artist

Owner of Ziyun Pottery House

Member of the Ceramic Carving Branch of the Yixing Ceramic Industry Association

Member of Yixing Calligraphers Association

Winning first prize in the 2020 Mountain Top Smoke and Cloud Handicraft Competition

Won a gold medal in the 2022 "Drunk Return" Golden Sheep Award competition

In 2023, "Mingyuan Fan" was selected and participated in the "Praise for the New Era - Purple Sand New Youth 2023 Invitation Exhibition"

Selected for the "New Era and New Journey - Purple Sand New Youth 5th Anniversary Invitation Exhibition" in 2023, and won the 2018-2023 Sharp Innovation Award

The 2023 "Ink Singing and Knife Dance, Wonderful Tools in the Same Dust" exhibition by Sha Wenli will be exhibited at the Changzhou Art Museum.

The pottery carving master studied under Mr. Zhou Boqi (Wood and Stone) and Mr. Zhao Hui

Chinese painting was taught by Mr. Kong Fang from Qianshanzi

Calligraphy taught by Mr. Xu Sheng from Elephant Hall

I love studying Song paintings, they are my spiritual guide. During the Five Dynasties, Tang and Song dynasties, emphasis was placed on using form to depict the gods, with the saying "to capture the gods and see their appearance, and to express emotions in the eyes.".

The portrait stones and bricks of the Wei and Jin dynasties replaced the depiction of details with simple outline descriptions, using ancient and clumsy techniques to outline vivid and concise individual images, giving people rich imagination.

In terms of image depiction, the simple waving of lines creates a flowing and lifelike feeling, but in Ming and Qing painting, both the techniques and the expression of spirit are vastly different from it.

Before the Song and Tang dynasties, there was a greater pursuit of artistic expression of the aesthetic concepts of "spirit" and "form". In Chinese painting, I prefer Xia Gui, who has a plain lake and distant mountains, shrouded in clouds and mist, and a distant artistic conception, creating a hazy beauty that only belongs to the East. I tend to grasp the freedom of space in my work creation, not limited to form, and my thoughts can be more intuitively expressed.

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