Emily Shih

Emily Shih is an artist based in Taiwan. She works in acrylic and watercolor. She has
participated in many Taiwan group and solo exhibitions and won many art awards. Her
works were also invited to be exhibited in Europe, America, South America, the Middle East
and Southeast Asia.
She falls in love with creating art at an early age and has never stopped in the pursuit of this
passion. For her, art is about falling in love with something, it’s about the feelings it conjures
up inside you.
Emily Shih’s works are inspired by nature's beauty. She loves using rich and vivid color on
painting. By piling up different shapes of hue blocks, she transforms the realist world into a
bright and splendid world of her own. This is how she praises nature, and a way of selfexpression.
By utilizing the bright and saturated colors, she arranges the irregular shapes and various
chroma of color blocks alternatively and simplify the details of the scenery. she would like to
show the spatial extensity, rhythm and the impressionism with the colors, and furthermore
she hopes to construct new imagery and resonance visually.
Most of her works are depicting natural landscapes, such as sunsets, mountains and rivers,
reflections of water, places she has traveled and places she wants to go. In addition, she loves
the themes of positive, optimistic and joyful. she wants for people to look at her artworks
and feel the same thing that she does- peaceful, happiness, joy and always believing in
something good.
Emily Shih believes that artworks can bring people a lot of throbbing of mind, therefore, she
wants to use her works to heal people's hearts. In her works, showing the gentle and peaceful
harmony, and if, the temperature of brush can comfort lonely in the deep inside heart, she
would like to paint all the better, and uses art to color the world