My first impression on seeing Brother Sheng Hui's oil paintings was stillness — and, permeating it, a distinct flavor of Zen. He might well be called a practitioner who paints. ……
Sheng Hui lives a remarkably genuine life. Keeping a household, teaching school, making paintings — three strands woven into one whole, none slighted, all thriving in harmony.
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Dreamscapes of mountains and rivers: Sheng Hui on inner imagery and the abstract realm, with five oil paintings.
Out painting with friends, I often hear someone say how miserable it is to have painted badly today, how knotted up inside they feel — and I feel exactly the same. If that is so……
1. Cast aside all technique; a single idea is enough.
2. When looking at the landscape, keep your gaze fixed even more closely on the self who paints — paint what is in your hea……
As I understand it, the novelty and contemporaneity of schema is much like Buddhist disciples after enlightenment, who appear before others in different guises. Master Hongyi wa……
The Buddha's teaching speaks of eighty-four thousand dharma gates, and a practitioner will choose the one gate that resonates most deeply with their own mindstream, the one with……
The longer I paint, the more I feel it: the truly hard thing is not painting something to look "like" — it is, in the moment the brush comes down, temporarily forgetting all the……
