A Changed Environment, Messums West, Tisbury, UK, 2026
The paintings in this series extend Lihong Bai's ongoing inquiry into landscape as unstable terrain. Working with ink, rock colour, and Xuan paper, she deconstructs the classical conventions of ShanShui 山水 - dissolving the boundary between mountain and void, stillness and rupture. Each work is a site of negotiation: between tradition and displacement, between what a landscape holds and what it refuses to contain.
Heterotopia 山水
My My My
Rice paper, ink and rock colour
300 × 1150 cm
2023
BA Graduate Show,
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China
A traditional Chinese ink painting depicting wind in pines among a myriad of valleys, mountains, and waterfalls, created with silk and ink, measuring 188.7 cm by 139.8 cm in 2022.
A detailed ink drawing of a mountainous landscape with tall cliffs, pine trees, and a waterfall, titled 'Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys'.
Close-up of handwritten script with cursive, black ink on beige paper.
Black ink brushstroke of a Chinese character on white handmade paper, dimensions 215cm by 138cm, created in 2022.