Henri Matisse’s expressive colour and David Hockney’s playful perspectives find echoes in Haotian’s imagined interiors. In Hockney’s Lakehouse, blue floorboards meet green chairs, while golden trees rise against a pink sky. Colour carries the eye from the room into the landscape, turning a domestic scene into a place poised between memory and invention.
In her paintings, a church is a pink bounce house, and her bear, translucent as glass, wears a spiked collar. Her gleaming surfaces and rounded forms recall the familiar comfort of childhood objects, enlarged on monumental canvases that fill your field of vision.
Scale shapes your encounter with Elina’s paintings. There is pleasure in being immersed in their colour and detail; with time, that initial recognition gives way to questions about the attachments these objects hold. What makes something feel safe, precious or worthy of belief? How much of that feeling belongs to the object, and how much do we bring to it?
Tianhao is a contemporary surrealist artist whose paintings transform ordinary objects and architectural spaces into psychological allegories. His precise, dreamlike scenes examine freedom, identity, and the unseen structures that shape modern life.
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