作者姓名:賴美華(1948)

生平描述:1948年出生於嘉義義竹的醫生家庭，自小喜歡塗塗畫畫，對世界充滿了好奇心。中學的時候來到臺南唸書，在美術老師沈哲哉的藝術啟蒙下，除了基本技巧的學習，也開始接觸各類美術書籍，使她大開眼界。除課堂上的學習，賴美華也時常利用假日至書局閱讀有關美術的國外書籍。她開始思考繪畫與創作的意涵，創作思維逐漸從外在寫實走向內在感受的轉譯。從高一起，賴美華開始將內在的思維實驗在畫布上，到高三的時候，她完成第一幅意象式的創作，畫面上她以繽紛瑰麗的色彩表現花卉般的圖形與流動性的造型，奠定了她藝術創作生涯的主軸風貌。
結婚後，身兼創作者與家庭主婦兩職的她，雖然無法全心投入創作，但她把握零碎的時間以素描的方式快速地描寫下感覺，並記錄下時間。換言之，創作可以說是賴美華的日記，不管是情感上的酸甜苦澀，抑或是生活中所接觸的音樂、戲劇與書籍等日常事件，所有的感官體驗都是賴美華創作的靈感來源。不論歷經多少艱辛，創作始終是賴美華生命的一部份，她的作品獲臺北市立美術館、高雄市立美術館、臺南市美術館、正修科技大學、國立臺灣師範大學等機構典藏。
賴美華窮盡內心的形象與符號來表現生活、生命、家庭的體悟，這些畫面的空間呈現了賴美華身為一位創作者所看見的、所察覺的、所感知的─女性的處境。

Mei-Hua Lai was born in 1948 in Chiayi. Since childhood she loved to draw and paint and had curiosity about the world. In middle school, she came to Tainan to study, and under the artistic inspiration of her art teacher Che-Tsai Shen, she began to learn basic techniques as well as to access various art books, which proved to be eye-opening. Outside of class, Lai often went to bookstores on holidays to read foreign art books. She began to think about the meaning of painting and creation, and her creative thinking gradually moved from external reality to the translation of internal feelings. From the first year of high school, Lai began to experiment with her inner thoughts on canvas, and in her senior year she completed her first imaginative works, in which she created floral shapes and fluid forms in magnificent colors, establishing the main axis of her artistic
career. After her marriage, she worked simultaneously as creator and housewife, and although she was unable to devote herself to creative work, she took the time to make sketches and record her feelings, creating a record of her time. Lai’s diary, in other words, was her form of creation. All sensory experience is the source of inspiration for Lai’s creations, whether the everyday sweet and sour emotions of daily life, or encounters with music, drama, and books. Her works have been collected by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, the Tainan Museum of Fine Arts, the National Cheng Hsiu University of Science and Technology, and the National Taiwan Normal University. Mei-Hua Lai uses inner images and symbols to the fullest in order to express a realization of life, fate, and family. The space of these images presents what Lai sees, perceives, and senses as a creator: the situation of women.

資料來源:「SHERO:臺灣當代女性藝術展」圖錄專輯(臺南:臺南市美術館，2022)，頁214。