Harmonies

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art is pleased to present a survey exhibition of paintings by Guanting Li. Harmonies brings together a selection of figurative and landscape works inspired by both Chinese and Western art traditions and experiences. These atmospheric paintings ask the viewer to spend time, to quietly consider and contemplate the depictions of transcendent harmony.

We find a connection between heaven and earth, an other worldly realm, particularly in the works where the human figure is rendered as an almost insignificant spectator to the majesty of nature. Other works celebrate flora and fauna in a more straightforward style—birds in a nest, koalas in a tree, the colour of autumn leaves, streams running over rocks – perceptive observations of the harmonious beauty of landscape. Mr Li also depicts figures, often in traditional Chinese costume, building a peaceful relationship between groups of figures or their surrounds.