A Daybreak In Edinburgh    180-200cm   Oil   2008

To celebrate the beginning of the Year of Homecoming Scotland, the Torchlight festival is the warm-up for the magnificent Hogmanay. This procession of event is one of my favorite western festivals which held on the end of year. It created a dramatic ‘river of fire’ through the centre of Edinburgh, down The Mound, along Princes Street and into Waterloo Place on its way to Calton Hill. This track of Torchlight route that people down and up gave me an inspiration of eastern graphic composition.Therefore, I’d like to make a combination between western scenes and eastern composition. A daybreak in Edinburgh is my new work to explore this combination. I express a western traditional festival—Torchlight in a Chinese landscape composition form. In this painting, there are four different deep of spaces which come from the Three-depth perspective regulation—Far-depth, Middle-depth and close-depth in traditional Chinese landscape painting. By using this regulationI express different perspectives and display many scenes of my impression from the exciting festival of Torchlight at the same time.I set up the time of painting as early morning to celebrate the coming of the New Year.

                                                                                                                                                 ----Yuping Li

                                         Noah's Ark  180-200cm  Oil on canvas  2008

   Climate change is already beginning to impact on us—droughts, floods and other weather changes are causing problems that we need to deal with now. The power of mankind is trivialness when we try to fight against the disaster nature brings us. Therefore, a concerning of climate change and floods is my topic in this painting.

It begins with the story of Noah's Ark, according to chapters 6 to 9 in the Bible of Genesis. This story is a primary example of people’s preparing against floods. I use this story as a background to create a contemporary Noah’s ark. It is a Noah’s Ark for human being to protect not only people, animals but also what we love and treasure.         

                       Halloween Celebration      90-160cm >< 2     Oil on canvas   2008

Halloween is a festival which began in Ireland thousands of years ago called Samhain. It was a celebration of the end of the harvest season, when livestock was killed to store for winter. But today this festival is more than a celebration of harvest; it was turned into a relaxed and leisure manner of people. Many people, from my view, get lots of enjoyment and fun during their participation of this celebration. It is really a popular festival in Edinburgh.

This painting of Halloween is a representation of my concerning about how the contemporary people to celebrate their traditional festival and culture. Like most realism paintings, my painting depicts concrete plots and people’s actions in the process of Halloween Celebration. But different with realism paintings, I haven’t divided scenes into different canvas to display different plots. In stead of this, I extended the long edge of the canvas and put all plots in one painting. The plots are ushered by the left part of people’s demonstration and developed into a climax of girls’ dancing. All the plots and behaviors happened one by one. Although my innovation breaks a rule of one painting one plot in traditional Realism, it looks in order according to the topic of Halloween street demonstration.

   Edinburgh International Art Festival Painting     1000-180cm    Oil on canvas