The exhibition takes traditional Chinese culture as its creative starting point. Through four themes — Gardens of the Four Seasons, “清明上河圖” （Along the River During the Qingming Festival）, Chinese Mythology, and the Ink Painting of Plum Blossom, Orchid, Chrysanthemum and Bamboo — it guides audiences to an understanding of nature, daily life and artistic beauty within Chinese culture from a range of perspectives.
The works in the exhibition were created jointly by students and by parents working with their children. Using ink and light color, mixed media, collaborative painting and installation, they transform traditional subjects into works of art.

The exhibition opens with Gardens of the Four Seasons, returning to the Chinese observation and imagination of natural landscape. Through garden elements such as mountains, water, flowers and rocks, the works present the distinct scenery and mood of spring, summer, autumn and winter, inviting audiences to appreciate the aesthetics of the Chinese garden — its accord with nature and its expression of feeling through landscape.

The theme of “清明上河圖” （Along the River During the Qingming Festival） then shifts from garden and nature to the civic life of the city. Through a handscroll and a six-panel screen installation, it reinterprets the human activity, street spaces, river transport and market scenes of the ancient city, revealing the way traditional Chinese painting records everyday life and narrates an age.

The Chinese Mythology section takes imagination and story as its starting point. Through the figure of "Sun Wukong" in “Journey to the West”, it expresses the courage, quick wit and irrepressible energy of traditional tales. A sequence of images presents his martial arts movements, allowing audiences to feel the dynamism of a mythological figure across the picture surface.

The parent-and-child ink paintings of plum blossom, orchid, chrysanthemum and bamboo echo the imagery of the four seasons, using the “六君子”（Four Gentlemen of Chinese Culture） to express the turning of the year and a poetic way of living. Four paintings form a single scroll; through reserved blank space, ink and light color, they reveal the tranquil, refined beauty of space in Chinese ink painting.

From the seasons of the garden, through city life and mythological story, to the character of flowers and trees, the four sections are interlinked, presenting the rich and multifaceted face of Chinese culture. In the exhibition, audiences see both the continuity of tradition and the students' own reinterpretation of classic subjects through their appreciation, imagination and creation — so that Chinese culture continues to be understood and carried forward in art learning today.

 

Date: 21 November 2026

Time: 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.