Author: Lin Hsueh-Ching

Size:Length:59.5 x Width:84 (cm)

Size description：98.5x123x3.5(含框)

Introduction：Lin Hsueh-Ching (1952-), born in New Taipei City, graduated from the Fine Arts Department at National Taiwan Normal University. She and her husband, the renowned printmaker Chung You-Hui, were college classmates and later co-founded the Shi-Ching Printmaking Association. Lin is a full-time professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Taipei Municipal University of Education and an adjunct professor at the Graduate Institute of Printmaking at National Taiwan University of Arts. She also serves as a director of the Printmaking Society of the Republic of China. Lin has extensive research and experience in various printmaking techniques and is a pioneer in teaching computer-assisted printmaking in Taiwan. She is one of the few experts in Taiwan specializing in modern printmaking materials and techniques and is also among the few female art educators dedicated to printmaking art creation. Besides her own creation and research, she is committed to promoting modern printmaking art education in Taiwan. Lin often contemplates the interplay between yin and yang, the real and the virtual, and the subjective and objective. She believes that many things in the world are formed by the combination of yin and yang, with their harmonious beauty transforming reality into the virtual, thus creating life. Each of her series reflects her pursuit of personal ideals and expectations for self-growth.
Her works frequently feature elements of nature, such as the universe, earth, tides, and lunar phases. In her early works, she loved incorporating butterflies, using their metamorphosis as a symbol. Recently, her works predominantly feature wood grain patterns, with layered ripples resembling the sky, ocean, light waves, or even the flow of the atmosphere.
Taiwan is known as the Kingdom of Butterflies, and Lin uses the butterfly as a motif. She depicts them spiraling outward and soaring over the tall Freedom Square Arch, symbolizing the milestones of Taiwan’s rising winds of freedom. Lin's research emphasizes the importance of the relationship between new technologies and traditional techniques in printmaking. By using computer-assisted printmaking, she transforms objective reality into subjective expression, creating a contemporary feel through digital image processing.

Accession Number:PT09788200