Bamboo Wishing You Are Safe and Sound
Chinese Scroll

Bamboo - Safe and Sound Wishes

The Chinese title written on this artwork translates as, "Quiet breeze bamboo safe and sound". For this artwork, the title is used to describe a tranquil feeling as well as wishing people a safe and sound life. In Mandarin Chinese, the pronunciation for "bamboo" and "wish" are very similar (homophonic). So the bamboo also represents a wish in artwork titles like this. Also written on the painting is 辛卯年, an indication of the year painted (2011). Also, 建秋, the artist's signature.

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About the Art:

This is a simple painting style, but it also incorporates a lot of detail. This painting really mimics the style of Chinese artwork that has been around for thousands of years.

The artist used some special "watermark xuan paper" for this artwork, which gives it a very unique look. In Chinese, this is known as "water paper". This name comes from the fact that embedded in the paper is a visual texture that mimics the look of waves of water. You have to see it to understand, but trust me, you'll like it. It gives the artwork a certain antique and classic look.

This artwork is completely hand-painted and is mounted to a handmade silk wall scroll in our workshop.

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About the Artist:

The artist's name is (Wang Jian-Qiu). He lives in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong Province in Northern China (about 5 hours south of Beijing). I was introduced to this artist's work at Qin Xia's studio in Jinan. This artist has been a long time friend of Qin Xia (You may recognize Qin Xia's name from artwork in our flowers and birds category). Wang Jian-Qiu also does some great detailed beautiful woman paintings, and occasionally does some landscapes for us as well.