Tumbling Water, Soaring Pine

Born in 1962 in Hualien, Peng Kang-long graduated from the Taipei National University of the Arts in 1988 with a focus in ink painting. Peng is a pioneer in contemporary ink paintings in Taiwan, with works reflecting his novel interpretation of spatial dimensions and composition in traditional Chinese landscape paintings. His signature brushstrokes give tremendous life and energy to the trees and flowers he paints, often densely packed with lifeless rocks and mountains. Peng unleashes a dynamic emotion through a coexistence of yin and yang in his paintings.