Jenny Yu-Chen Liu graduated from the Chelsea School of Art with a First Class Honours degree in 2001, she then went on to complete a Masters degree at the Slade School of Art. During this period JYCL has continued to develop her fastidious technique. She has experimented with oil glaze, wax and latex, revelling in the different textures and finishes that these mediums afford.

Frankly her abstract paintings are beautiful and have a refinement that is rare in such a young artist. Linear structure gives way to a sense of freedom and space; the eye wanders across the picture plane, pausing momentarily to consider what lies beneath. 

There is nothing haphazard about her work. Her understanding of colour and composition gives her paintings artistic sophistication and gravitas. Each line is placed according to a structured arrangement that forms the basis of every painting. Meticulously executed and carefully planned Jenny Yu-Chen Liu’s works take the viewer into a world of mystery. 

Jenny’s paintings can be found in private and corporate collections across the world. There

‘My main focus has been on using linear structure to explore light and space as well as body movement. To seek space in my memory, whether internal or external or in some new experience.

I normally start a painting with a simple form. However, the painting gradually becomes more complex, because of the various lines and the number of layers which I inscribe on the canvas. The process I use is about covering and then removing the paint from the canvas, it is like hiding something and discovering something else, it is risky and sometimes confusing but this is for me the great excitement in creating a painting.

I have been using different source information to manipulate lines. The image may come from something I have seen and remembered, or from something which just came up. There is no particular way that the painting has to be looked at or perceived, I hope the work  can transcend the scope of vision as well as stir one’s imagination and evoke one’s experience of a different space and time’.

JYCL