Wendy Lu _ Lot 48
Independent
Title: Floral Garden 3
My artwork, Floral Garden 3, depicts a thriving, radiant garden alive with brilliant light, vivid colours, and streams cascade into a glimmering waterfall, symbolizing renewal, continuity, and life’s vibrant rhythm. Layered acrylics and textured brushwork create luminous depth and motion, bringing petals, highlighting resilience, vitality, hope, and peace. Through Floral Garden 3, I aim to inspire viewers to water, and foliage vividly to life. My artwork celebrates a harmonious, interconnected natural world, and dynamic movement. Towering trees rise above abundant, blooming flowers, while rivers experience serenity, joy, and a deep connection to the energy, beauty, and life of nature.
Dimensions: 24" x 30"
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Value: $500
Date: 2023
Wendy Lu is a Hard of Hearing, Taiwan-born, Toronto-based multimedia artist whose work transforms personal experience into compelling visual expression. She graduated from York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Specialized Honours in Visual Arts. She lost her hearing at age three due to meningitis and later underwent left-brain surgery and three cochlear implant surgeries in her right ear. Wendy’s artistic practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, mixed media, illustration, and digital art. Combining traditional craftsmanship with contemporary techniques, she uses diverse methods to create layered, textured imagery in acrylics, oils, watercolour, gouache, pencils, and markers. Blending realism, surrealism, and abstraction, Wendy has developed a distinctive voice that bridges tradition and contemporary expression. Her art explores urban landscapes, green architecture, and breakthrough technologies, aiming to foster sustainable communities and support mental health. Her work functions as a visual thought experiment, creatively expanding on a wide range of concepts and references while mapping out forms of non-normative experiences and possibilities. Resilience and experimentation define her practice, transforming challenges into opportunities for creative exploration while engaging audiences and offering fresh perspectives in contemporary art.
