Pei Ke was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1995. Her artistic creations are deeply rooted in the natural scenes around her. By integrating the adoration and imagination of nature, she has formed a unique narrative language. Through figurative paintings, her works depict the reflection of divinity in daily scenes. With specific and clear images and stories, they present narrative content with a touch of fantasy and sacredness, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
In recent years, Pei Ke has focused on Tempera paintings on wood panels, an ancient medium that evokes the viewer’s memory of medieval images. Her images gradually reveal a restrained, delicate and soft quality in the process of repeated creation, revealing a complex, ambiguous and mysterious quality. Pei Ke deeply explores the material properties of Tempera and uses this medium to depict images that are contemporary but have an extra-temporal quality, giving the works a sense of timelessness that transcends time and space. She is particularly fascinated by the use of line, and Tempera is the perfect medium to utilize this linear drawing. In her paintings, birds and animals, grass, trees, clouds and stones can all be painted, and all natural things are endowed with a kind of divine vitality. Pei Ke’s works intentionally blur the boundaries between the present and the past, between man and nature, and between this shore and the other shore. From the picture to the title, she tries to break down these boundaries to create a complex and mysterious artistic effect.
Pei Ke’s educational experience includes an MFA in Oil Painting from the China Academy of Art, an MFA exchange in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, an undergraduate degree in Oil Painting from the China Academy of Art, and a secondary school attached to the China Academy of Art. Her creations not only show her concern for contemporary art, but also assert herself in easel figurative painting, constructing an art world full of mystery and imagination through ancient mediums and delicate brushstrokes
