Michelle Liou

Summary

Michelle is a modern narrative artist. Currently, she is the treasurer of the Sarawak Artists Society, member of the Kuching Chung Hua Arts Association, member of the Urban Kuching Sketchers, and also member of the National Art Gallery of Malaysia.

Michelle paints mainly abstract acrylic on canvas, and she also enjoys Chinese painting. Her artworks are the embodiments of the way she views the world. She paints with a vigorous intuition, arresting space and time, and moods and emotions, in her vibrant works. A lover of nature and lush green, she uses her narrative art to tell a story unapologetically, inspired by the natural beauty of the ecosphere, to create whole-hearted expressions of love and joy.

Her paintings are the coherent reflections of her social thoughts, casting conversational images on canvas, and transforming her visualizations into a tangible reality. Her subtle and confident mastery of the chiaroscuro technique in her biomorphic abstract art is a realistic eye-catching style, characterized by her remarkable gentleness and harmony of shapes and bright colours. Her techniques, with flurries of thick brushstrokes and pouring, make up the cheerful colours in her paintings. Each of her paintings has its own clues, revealing her feelings and emotions, blending together to formulate a story of peace, love and hope. Her passionate and expressive spontaneity, and vivid use of colours unite the images of her paintings with the sensibilities of the viewers.

The relentless and diligent efforts over the course of many laborious years have made her a stylistic abstraction expressionist. Michelle has gained commendable recognition for her gestural expressionism. Her paintings have been exhibited in several galleries and collected by both local and overseas art lovers.