“The inner impetus for my painting, during this period of time (1996-present) comes mainly from my practice of meditation and my dance experience.
When I meditate daily, I discover that life is impermanent and dreamlike. It becomes clearer that people have the tendency to grasp perceptions as solid existence and form as reality; the mind is exhausted and deluded by itself. Keeping one’s mind open is the way to perceive the true face of nature. Once the mind is obscured by illusions, actions cause results, which karmic seeds are creating another dream of future life.
When I am dancing, I feel the music, and my body’s movement expresses this feeling. When I am painting, my feeling is expressed by different colors, different kinds of paper and different textures. Form carries my feeling; image is being perceived in different ways – it is developing and illusory, like a magic display of pure ultimate nature. It is no longer solid. It is personal, but it is also universal. It is calm and exciting. It is the union of the ultimate and the individual experience (yoga).
With the development of painting, concepts are formed
to express the openness of reality. A title
is only a personal awareness of
the reality. It does not close the painting. The painting itself,
which reflects
the reality, is titleless. My painting is a very concrete procedure incorporating
the
awareness of the union of personal experience with the naked truth.” Yueh-mei
Cheng
Yueh-mei Cheng is a professional artist and studio art professor. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout North America, Europe and Asia as well as in her native Taiwan. She obtained M.A and M.F.A degrees in painting from the University Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently an associate professor of studio art at Finlandia University International School of Art and Design in Michigan.
Ms. Cheng's artwork mainly in two-dimensions: Acrylic, Watercolor, and traditional Chinese and Japanese pigments on paper, canvas or silk. In the first two decades of Cheng's art career in her native Taiwan, she became a well-known traditional Chinese Brush painter.The uniqueness of her art is moving and impressive with real sentiments and aspirations. The bold, deep and mysterious creation comes from her inventive virtuosity and deep comprehension of Nature. Her art strongly inspires the admirers and collectors to share her inner spiritual experiences.
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