May 1 – May 31, 2021
SOLO Exhibition
O’Rainbow
Memories of the Middle East
Petra (The Road to Treasury)
water color painting
10.04 x 12.01 inches
2019, ed. 1
$580 (with frame)
O’Rainbow visited Petra in Jordan in 2018, and deeply touched by its mystery and beauty.
Her mind was wandering in between the past & present at this magic Sik (The Road) all the way to the Treasury….
Dome of Rock in Jerusalem
water color painting
11.82 x 8.86 inches
2019, ed. 1
$350 (with frame)
The Beiteddine (A Pearl in Lebanon)
water color painting
11.82 x 8.86 inches
2019, ed. 1
$350 (with frame)
Beiteddine Palace is a perfect combination of the culture, the style of arts and architecture of Lebanon. O’Rainbow is impressed by its exotic Middle East flavor. She felt in love with the serenity of this place.
Sailing (Dreaming on the Nile River)
water color painting
12.21 x 9.26 inches
2021, ed. 1
$350 (with frame)
Egyptian Beauty
water color painting
8.47 x 11.03 inches
2020, ed. 1
At a bus stop in between Luxor and Hurghada in Egypt, O’Rainbow and her family met this beautiful young woman. She instantly discovered the connection between the “East” and “West”. The Egyptian girl with no name was naïve and pure. She is simply a symbol of the Egyptian people that are so kind and generous to everyone in this world. Her smile was engraved at O’Rainbow’s mind deeply. She decided to paint this young Egyptian girl someday….
Holy (My Hand over the Jordan River)
water color painting
8.47 x 11.42 inches
2020, ed. 1
O’Rainbow and her family visited Jordan River in Israel at Christmas season in 2018. Jordan River is a historical baptism site that is so significant to anyone that has a Christian faith. She was touched by the Holy Spirit when her hand hovered over the Holy Water. O’Rainbow painted this art piece to dedicate to Easter 2021.
Glories of Abu Simbel Temples
colored pencilson toned paper
11.82 x 8.86 inches
2021, ed. 1
$250 (without frame)
The artist was totally awestruck by the magnificent temples when she stood in front of them, under that golden sunshine, feeling the dry winds, imaging how thousands of years of human civilization & wisdom prospered and declined. The glories and the darkness exist at the same time in this universe….
O’Rainbow (Fiona Y. Shen) was born in Shanghai, China. She is so blessed that she had chance to be trained in the field of traditional Chinese Painting as well as Chinese Calligraphy from a young age. She was fascinated by these traditional Chinese visual arts and spent hours and hours practicing despite her busy academic life, which significantly influenced her artistic path.
O’Rainbow majored in fashion designing at her university, where she continuously practiced a larger variety of visual arts in different media, including water colour, gouache, colour pencils, inks, etc. She started her career in the apparel industry including designing and visual merchandising after graduation.
After she moved to Canada, she established a digital graphic design business for a short period of time and then launched her long career in Automobile industry. However, visual arts is always O’Rainbow’s passion. She picked up her brushes and the palettes again in the recent few years and created numerous art pieces. She donated her art pieces multiple times to the community charity events and very active at social media.
She has travelled to many parts of the world during the past ten years. She wishes to capture every meaningful moment in her life, express her deep love towards nature and leave viewers with a sense of beauty and empowerment to others.
Your work inspires me so much. Feeling the sensitivity, greatness, and subtleness that your painting projects helps me travel along with you wherever you have been. It’s a subtle pleasure even virtually! I can’t wait to see your work offline. Thank you!