Milla Chang

Milla Chang is a portuguese artist born in Taiwan in 1967.

Graduated in Medical Sciences of Nutrition, very early she has abandoned this professional activity to dedicate herself in full time to her true passion for Arts. For more than 2 decades she worked as jewelry designer, creating and drawing jewelry author's pieces in Taiwan and performing her jewelry creations at numerous international exhibitions in Asia.

Throughout the last decade she lives most of his time in Portugal, in the Douro Valley region that she has adopted in his heart, where she researches techniques and styles of painting from two different cultures, exploring and experiencing simultaneously the use of traditional techniques from eastern and western aiming to reach out creative perspectives and new visual results. 

Milla's special and natural talent for drawings and paintings as well as her roots and background in the practice of the noble art of traditional chinese calligraphy are present on the works she creates and part of her fine, delicated and unique style. 

Harmony, Balance and Serenity are noticeable characteristics in Milla's paintings and relevants in the daily life of the artist.

All paintings are performed with "chinese inks" applied on fine rice paper ("xuanzhi" paper).

POPPING THROUGH SEASONS OF LIFE | ongoing
Vídeo: https://youtu.be/aaURHJWnWIo
Local: Hotel Pestana Cidadela Cascais, Cascais, PT
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Data: May / September 2024

PASSION FOR DOURO | upcoming 
Local: Museu do Douro, Peso da Régua, PT
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Date: 03 Oct. / 27 Nov. 2024

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A creative and unique symbiosis between oriental minimalist and western hyper-realistic styles.
While vine strains are painted in a new creative and minimalist style leaves and bunches of grapes are painted on exquisite way even reaching out levels of photographic details.
Recently Milla Chang has been creating, developing and using her own creative and unique techniques on vineyards´s paintings.

Materials: "China-inks" applied on fine rice paper ("xuanzhi" paper).
Technique: eastern brush painting.

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Traditional asian paintings in a minimalist and conceptual sumie technique and style. Once a stroke is traced on the fine rice paper is neither eraseable nor correctable anylonger.

High precision and control of brushes, ink and water. The sumie technique is inherited from traditional chinese calligraphy which is a basic request to reach high level patterns in this rigorous style.

Materials: "China-inks" applied on rice paper ("xuanzhi" paper).
Technique: eastern brush painting.

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Since ancient times the design of Chinese Calligraphy is a major Art in the chinese culture and among the spectrum of asian fine arts.

Designed by talent artists the artworks of traditional chinese calligraphy become impressively beautiful pieces of design (as well as enigmatic for western cultures) containing stylized writing symbols made with "China-inks" on traditional rice paper using eastern brush painting technique.

Calligraphy' skills and technique owned by Milla Chang generates and boosts by itself the quality and style of her art paintings.

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