池海翔|Chi Haixiang
Contemporary Ink Artist · Exploring lotus and floral forms through a modern ink language.
Chi Haixiang’s practice unfolds through a sustained engagement with ink painting in a contemporary context. Rather than pursuing immediate visual impact, his work returns repeatedly to enduring motifs such as lotus and flowers in water, using them as a means to explore nature, time, and inner order.
Over years of continuous practice, Chi has developed a restrained and coherent visual language. Working primarily on paper, he often employs multi-panel and elongated compositions, emphasizing rhythm, negative space, and compositional balance. In his paintings, flowers are not treated as decorative subjects, but as fleeting states—emerging, dissolving, and quietly observed within water.
His work has been included in several national Chinese ink painting exhibitions and has entered institutional collections. These experiences have not led his practice toward spectacle, but rather reinforced a commitment to slow, series-based exploration. Within the evolving discourse of contemporary ink painting, Chi Haixiang’s work stands as a meditative and introspective presence, grounded in continuity and quiet observation.