Elisa Zuo

''I am collaborating with nature, city and souls......''

Selected artworks

This is a transition age

-This is a transition age depict the impact of cities in which two countries fight with each other. Which made me feel that they are both digging their own grave. (Acrylic painting)

-’My artistic intention is to create a fragmented abstract painting, which communicates the chaotic atmosphere caused by the Transition age, what exactly

makes up this transition age and what exactly the people have in this transition age with the rich getting richer and poor getting poor as a result of the trade

war between USA and China. ‘’

-I create this painting by using Canvas, Acrylic paints, pencils, pen and eraser.

-I intend to achieve this by applying black, orange, red, blue, green, purple, pink, using materials available at school to create my fragmented aesthetic.

-It also shows hope for rebuilding after the trade war.

-Shows feelings related to Destruction

-frequent use of black, ochre, crown,yellow, dark green, blue grey and light yellow

-building and landscape are both fragmented because of the war.

-Green in the painting to represent sadness

-hope for rebuilding after the war

Contemporary theme: polarisation of humanity -smoky images represent the disruption of war

Harvest

My intention in this painting was to

demonstrate that even in the best of

times, there is always a negative side to

it. While the season of harvest seems to

be luxurious and dazzling, some

aspects are actually dark and corrupted.

The harvest season means not only fruit

and grains but also plastic pollution and

damage to living creatures. I was

inspired by the Dutch still life paintings

of bounty and decay by Frans Snyders.

Untitled

This Acrylic painting using the concept of magnification and distortion. By distorted and magnificated of the shapes of squashes and seashells. This painting depicted my love to the sea creatures and intended to urged everyone to protect our ocean.

Distortion of seashells

This Acrylic paintng using concept of distortion and magnification of some shells I have seem on the beach in Netherland.

Meerbusch, Buderich, afternoon

This Oil paintng depicted the afternoon at Meerbusch, Buderich, Germany in this oil painting.

Jellyfishes

This Acrylic painting depicted a vibrant undersea wold with numerous jellyfishes.

Abstraction of belong to

the sea(1)

This drawing depicted how the sea pollution does to those sea creatures and their soul.

Abstraction of belong to

the sea (2)

Suffering Soul

Abstraction of belong to

the sea (3)

Suffering Soul

My artistic intention is to create 3 abstract paintings by using slightly different medias and materials ( materialism)

which communicates the effect of sea pollution by humanity. These painting aim to encourage people to protect the

sea environment and is a warning about what may happened if they don’t. I intended to created these painting by

using the concept of fragmentation and creating them by using acrylic and watercolour. These artworks aim to

reflected on the contemporary theme of human and nature.

Repentence

This clay sculpture depicted a crying fish because of the demaged of the coral system. My intention was to communicate the negative impact of sea pollution on marine life . This sculpture encouraged people to protect the sea environment. I used black clay to build a muted fish with coral outgrowths and applied a range of different gazes to create texture and a sense of the impact of pollutants.

Missed (2)

This clay sculpture demonstrated the negative impact of sea pollution to all the marine lifes as well as a mood of meaning clean sea environment. This sculpture aims to encouraged people to restore the sea environment. This sculpture was created because my sad mood associated with the passing of my beloved grandpa and my most favourite art teature leaving the school.

Seashells

-Seashells are actually

colourful from the outside

unlike just looking deadly

white like everybody in this

world which is influenced by

‘all the light we cannot see.’

-This painting shows clear use of

smooth gradation which changes

its tonal value gradually from light

to dark, but also it transformed

the colour.

-This technique creates a

contrast between the light tone

and the dark tone providing a

sense of space. I used this

technique to create a texturalised

composition along with combing

the use of flat color

Mountainscape in the era of Global Warming

This paintng depicted The mountain which completely dried up because of global warming.

Untitled (dream)

This painting depicted the landscape be like in my dream.

Untitled(spring)

This paintng depicted the landscape be like in Spring.

Untitled (Scottisch landscape)

My artistic intention for this paintng is to commemorate my family trip to lake district and Edinburgh. The layout of this work is based on my old layout existed on the canvas.

Untitled(Dolomiti)

This painting depicted what Dolomiti looks like in my dream.

Experimental paintings

Russell-Cotes gallery and museum exhibition

Name: Fleeing to Egypt (1)

Medium: Oil paints on cotton duck canvas

Size: 60 x 40 cm

The first painting is inspired by Arthur Hughes’ Ophelia. This painting is deeply associated with Merton’s mental health and changes of personal emotions as each room within Russell- Cotes shows. The colonialism issue of immigration within him and my memories dragged me into this kind of dramatic methods of impressionism like oil painting of light within psychological spaces that create realm and aura with psychological war and disparities.

Name: Fleeing to Egypt (2)

Medium: Oil paints on cotton duck canvas

Size: 74x 55.5 cm

The second painting is inspired by Anno Domini or the Flight into Egypt and Siegfield by Maxwell Ashby Armfield. This painting is deeply associated with Merton’s excitement of traveling around this world. The main character shown in this painting is a hero called Siegfried which is a type of hero that ruled the world and stands atop the mountains at the mouth of the cave in which opera Brünnhilde was taking place ( Act III). This painting influenced the western Mythology culture that was prevalent within the Pre-Raphaelite painters. The cliff is blue because it is influenced by the forms of waves I saw from Poole Bay which form a dramatic contrast with those desert and date trees in the background just like the rooms of Russell-Cotes and Poole Bay view outside the window.

Paintings in exhibition setting

Year of production:2025

Title:Everfree Forest ( Final version)

Materials/Location: Oil sticks and oil paints on primed cotton duck canvas at Northlight studio studio 3

Dimensions/Duration: 1. 131x102cm, 2. 120x100cm

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