Preface

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Blooming in Fantasy evokes a dreamland filled between memory and imagination, a space where where growth blossoms, and stories unfold in petals and light. The exhibition title draws inspiration from the solar term Xiao Man ("Little Fullness") in the traditional Chinese calendar, a time when the grains begin to ripen and nature gently swells with promise. It serves as a layered poetic metaphor for beauty in progress, balance, and quiet anticipation. 

 

The exhibition’s Chinese title, “花满伊甸”, can be translated as "Where Blossoms Fill Eden." It draws poetic resonance not only from the imagery of a bloom dreamland but also from the artist’s given name 梦伊 (Mengyi). The character “梦” (dream) lends the exhibition its sense of dreamlike introspection, while “伊” (the biblical and literary pronoun for “she”) evokes both her identity and a lyrical sense of femininity, grace, and reflection. Together, the Chinese and English titles form a complete narrative: a graceful dreamland where art blooms, memory lingers, and personal stories become collective echoes.

 

In this solo exhibition, Mengyi (Grace) Wang invites viewers into a deeply personal yet universally resonant dreamland where memory, identity, and imagination flow together through layered narratives and symbolic landscapes. Born in China, shaped by life in the UK, and rooted in the U.S., Wang’s cross-cultural journey finds form in acrylic on canvas through a unique fusion of modern impressionism and traditional Chinese art.

 

Her ongoing main series, When Modern Impressionism Meets Traditional Chinese Art, uses nature and landscape, including flowers, trees, birds, and water, as both subject and metaphor. With a vivid palette rich in green, pink, and purple hues, these works are spaces of reflection and healing. Each composition is carefully constructed with openness and intentional strokes, inviting viewers to slow down, breathe, and enter the subtle poetry of time that flows between past, present and future.

 

Through symbolic landscapes and layered storytelling, Wang’s paintings encourage viewers to connect not only with her memories, but also with their own to look inward, to rediscover forgotten memories, to imagine new meanings, and to feel connected across cultures, generations, and emotional geographies. In this way, her work extends beyond the canvas and offers an experience shared between artist and viewer, between stillness and bloom, between the seen and the felt, between East and West.