CHEN LI WEI
陳俐維

Chen Li Wei was born in 1960 in the Shiqiuling Mountain area of Keelung, Taiwan. She is a self-taught amateur female artist known for her unique artistic expression and abundant talent. Chen Li Wei created a technique in oil painting, utilizing delicate brushstrokes, palette knives, impasto techniques, and pointillism to create a distinctive artistic world. The three-dimensional marks and relief-like dynamism on her oil paintings are a celebration of beauty and love, while also providing a positive healing force for the soul.

Since the year 2008, Chen Li Wei has held nearly a hundred touring exhibitions in major cities around the world and has achieved outstanding results among contemporary artists around the world. In 2016, Chen Li Wei was invited to the Louvre to hold an exhibition, she also won the Jury Prize of the French National Association of Fine Arts at the Louvre in Paris, which made her the highest hall of art. In 2017, she won the Jury Unit Prize at the French International Art Salon. In 2019, she won the Tokyo Art Biennale Academic Award in Tokyo. Her unique style of “stacked paintings” made the world know this self-taught painter.

Li Wei grew up in the mountains where she absorbed much of her artistic talent as a visionary artist. She delicates but her extensive three-dimensional palette knife technique is well-known between her art lovers and collectors from all over the world.

Li Wei liked to paint since she was a child without any professional courses. She started as a painter until she was 40 years old. Growing up in a small village surrounded by mountains is the reason she loves nature very much. She said, “My childhood was running on the grassland. There are many flowers and trees around me, just like Alice in Wonderland, that’s why my paintings are all about nature.”

Chen Li Wei had only two painting knives, such as a wall, stacking the layers of paint on the canvas, and painting the love of nature. “I think art is a healing treatment for me. I have turned my fearful heart into a beautiful scenery. I use my own creation and imagination to talk to my heart.”

陳俐維於1960年出生在台灣基隆市石丘嶺山區。她是一位自學成才的女藝術家，以獨特的藝術表達和豐富的才華而聞名。陳俐維在油畫方面創造了一種技巧，運用精緻的筆觸、調色刀、厚塗技巧和點彩主義，打造了獨特的藝術世界。她油畫上的立體痕跡和浮雕般的動感是對美和愛的慶祝，同時也為靈魂提供了積極的治愈力量。

2008年，陳俐維在全球各大城市舉辦了近百場巡展，在全球當代藝術家中取得了驕人的成績。 2016年，陳俐維受邀到盧浮宮舉辦個展，並在巴黎盧浮宮獲得法國國家美術協會評審獎，成為藝術的最高殿堂。 2017年，她獲得法國國際藝術沙龍評委會單元獎。 2019年獲東京藝術雙年展學術獎。她獨特的“疊畫”風格讓世人認識了這位無師自通的畫家。

無師自通的陳俐維，調製濃稠油彩，不用畫筆只用筆刀，運用了水泥師傅砌牆的技法，將油彩層層堆疊在畫布上；繪出比一般油畫更厚重、如雕塑般的立體視覺效果。

陳俐維從小在山區長大、與大自然為伍，山川、大地、雲霧、海洋都是畫中題材。她透過筆刀刻畫出日夜晨昏之美，每一座山對她來說有如母親溫暖的懷抱。

陳俐維自小就時常看著建築工匠的父親砌牆，耳濡目染下她的作畫工具也只有兩隻畫刀，像是砌牆那樣將顏料層層堆疊在畫布上，將熱愛的大自然畫的栩栩如生。通過她的畫作與周圍的對話。她富有想像力的作品包含著非常豐富的生命能量和愛。

「我覺得畫畫對我來說是一種療愈，將我曾經害怕的心都轉變成美好的景色，我用創作來跟內心對話。」她不僅賦予了大自然新的意義和情感，而且讓自己開啟了一個非凡，靚麗和美妙的風景線。