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Lifang Yao was born in Wuyishan, Fujian Province of China in 1978. She graduated from Fujian Normal University College of Fine Arts in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Because of her good grades, she was admitted to the graduate program at her college that same year. She got her Master of Arts degree in 2003, and has been teaching in the College of Fine Arts at Fujian Normal University since.
She mainly practices the gouache style of painting, using brush, ink, opaque water color, and Korean rice paper, drawing on both sides of the paper. A series of four of her works named “The Wild Gooses” gained the silver prize at the tenth National Art Exhibition of China in 2004, and were collected by the National Art Museum of China. Another work named “Playing Shuttlecock” was shown at the Sixth National Physical Culture Exhibition, and was collected by the National Physical Art Museum of China in 2005. Various other works have been shown at numerous art exhibitions and have been published in professional magazines. She is a member of the Fujian Artists Association and the Chinese Artists Association.
Lifang draws both still life and figures with her unique style, and is interested in abstract structure and subjective colors, as well as the ancient history and traditional culture of her country, which are shown in most of her works. Her work combines western modern art with traditional oriental art, because she loves not only Chinese traditional art, but western modern art as well. She pays special attention to aesthetics, and you can find that her works always show the spirit of aestheticism.
