About Jie Lan

 My name is Jie Lan and I was born in Mainland, China. I immigrated with my family to Calgary in 2006 and I am now pursuing my childhood passion for art as a third year Visual Studies major student at the University of Calgary. I do not adhere to any specific artistic style, because I believe whichever style that connects with the viewer is acceptable. In most of my paintings, prints and drawings, I tend to bring together the whole artwork by simply controlling the degree of looseness of both the purposeful and unintentional marks. Currently, I am studying traditional Chinese paintings and plan to combine their particular arrangement of visual elements with Western techniques. And in my drawings and prints, I tend to be more realistically descriptive that addresses to issues such as Climate Change and our ever-changing identity. I hope that this integration will help me explore more ways of representing ideas, and thus invite new readings of my artworks.