Wenji Billow’s “Dancing in the Wind”
Wenji, who has three daughters, speaks peacefully and beautifully of her own pregnancies: “I always felt a strong happiness inside me, I felt that the happiness was just like a song or a dance. When I carried my big tummy while painting, I felt I was in a forest, a calmness around me, no one there but my baby and me.”
Raised in a traditional Chinese family, Wenji Billow was born in Guangxi. She learned Chinese painting techniques as a university student in the Department of Fine Arts of Guangxi Normal University, becoming a professional painter when she moved to Hong Kong with her family. In the creation of her art, Wenji primarily works with ink, pigment and rice paper, as well as oil on canvas. Although she often uses traditional Chinese materials, however, Wenji considers her art to be part of a Chinese painting that is modern and not traditional.
Wenji’s work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and has been published in magazines and books related to Chinese art. She currently lives with her family in Göteborg, Sweden. More of Wenji’s work may be seen at Saatchi Online. She may be reached at: wenjibillow@gmail.com.