Students will study traditional Chinese brush painting techniques to still lifes and figures in either detail or free style. The style of watercolor paintings will move between classic and contemporary Chinese concepts. Further, students will freely incorporate Western concepts of composition, light, shadow, perspective, and color to explore space and to develop bolder compositions.

Ms. Gao Dalia has a Fine Arts degree from National Taiwan Normal University and studied in the graduate art program at the University of Hawaii. In 1996, Madam Lien, the wife of the Republic of China’s former Vice-President Dr. Lien Zhan, honored her for her art exhibition.

Her paintings have been exhibited at such prestigious venues as the Lincoln Center and the Soho Art Museum, New York; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Bower Museum, California; Currier Museum of Art, NH.; and the DeCordova Museum, MA. At the Copley Society of Boston, the oldest art society in the US, she was the first Chinese artist to be honored with both a solo exhibition and a Master Workshop program. She has been frequently interviewed by the various news media. Her paintings have been widely exhibited and awarded in prestigious venues and collected internationally for over three decades.