Collections
Six decades of traditional Chinese watercolor — from the Forbidden City studios to the empresses taking shape in Massachusetts today.
Chinese Empresses
More than 200 empresses across two thousand years — 151 portrait chapters in gemstone pigments on silk, still growing.
Dream of the Red Chamber
The first complete collection of all 413 characters from the classic novel — 371 of them with a chapter of their own, ten years of work, displayed in Beijing for two decades.
Creative Portraits
Living people painted on silk — her family, her friends, and the guests of her daughter’s podcast, most of whom she has never met. Each one is surrounded by creatures that argue for who they are.
Guanyin · Original Art
The bodhisattva of compassion, in mineral pigment and in ink — original paintings on Japanese album leaves and on silk, pre-mounted and ready to frame.
Fan Paintings
Landscapes, animals, court figures and flowers on the traditional 扇面 fan leaf, mounted on brocade — the smallest originals in the studio.
Pandas
Joyful watercolors of giant pandas — including a new set inspired by Qing Bao and Bao Li at the Smithsonian National Zoo.
Chinese Zodiac
Rat to pig, one painting each — half of them alive and funny, half cast as Shang bronzes, and every one signed with its name in oracle-bone script.
Chinese Dragons
The dragon on silk, and the dragon as a history — one form for every era from the Neolithic jade coil to the last Qing court robe, with a free handout.
Bring her story home
Canvas prints, scarves, puzzles and more — from $14.
Two full-color hardcovers — 217 empresses, 413 painted characters.
Questions? Write to xiangliart@gmail.com