Biography

Huang Youwei was born in Yueyang City, Hunan Province, in 1965.

Huang Youwei brings his love of nature and it's tranquillity into all his paintings. The artist was trained for three years in traditional Chinese Painting. Around the age of 21, he was exposed to and immediately fell in love with English landscape paintings, which reminded him of his hometown. He moved from painting in "ink and wash" to his present style of watercolor painting Huang Youwei's paintings, though quiet on the surface, are strongly imbued with the artist’s past, firm beliefs and clear dreams for the future. The artist explains that for him, the purpose of a painting is to show idyllic beauty. He explains that this is what he admires and loves. Huang Youwei presents a balance and coordination between human beings and nature, taking the beautiful sides of both, and fusing them together. Neither side dominates, rather they both coexist harmoniously. In this way he elegantly brings together and rationalizes the meeting of the east and west by extracting and mixing the positive and hopeful sides from both.