By combining classical oil painting and contemporary aesthetics, JIA LU has created a style that calls to us. Her sources of inspiration are international. Her work has philosophical depth. Her imagery evokes mystery.

BORN IN CHINA IN 1954, Jia Lu grew up in a family of artists. She came to an early appreciation of the beauty and power of the human figure through her parents, who were both professional artists. She worked as a nurse, a film and television actor, a naval officer, an art editor for a magazine and as a professional basketball trainee before enrolling in the Central Academy of Art and Design to begin her professional training as an artist.

JIA LU was already an accomplished figure painter in Chinese media when she left China for Canada in 1983. But it was while working as a research assistant in the Faculty of Visual Arts at York University that Jia Lu was first exposed to Western psychological approaches to the human figure. She subsequently taught art at Lambton College in Sarnia, Ontario, and privately in Calgary, Alberta.

Ms. Lu now lives and works in Los Angeles. She has also worked as chief designer for the Tang Garden Museum in Tokyo, and as consulting designer for a stage production in a joint venture between Pierre Cardin and the Chinese Ministry of Textiles in Beijing. Her design work includes traditional Buddhist mural painting, stage costume and jewelry.

JIA LU has participated in 35 group exhibitions and 20 solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Japan and China.

BUOYANT

Original Oil Painting on Canvas
20"x 16" (32" x 28" framed)

A young woman is depicted half-length, her form nearly entirely obscured by a brite yellow spray of fabric blown upward
by an unseen wind that also lifts her hair.
Signed by Jia Lu in the lower right.

ADRIFT
Giclee on Canvas
268 S/N, 25 AP
32" x 32"

WHITE PEONIES
Giclee on Canvas
268 S/N, 25 AP
40" x 30"

BRONZE BELL
Giclee on Canvas
88 S/N, 12AP
40" x 30"

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DANCERS
Giclee on Canvas
168 S/N, 15 AP
4 2" x 28"

FLYING VEIL
Giclee on Canvas
88 S/N, 12 AP
20 " x 20"

FALLEN GODDESS
Giclee on Canvas
Regular
42 x 24 - 128 S/N 15 AP
Deluxe
36 x 60 - 38 S/N, 5 AP

WATER
Giclee on Canvas
88 S/N, 12 AP
28" x 42

FLAME
Giclee on Canvas
88 S/N, 12 AP
32" x 32"

GRACE
Giclee on Canvas
268 S/N, 25 AP
24" x 24"

HALO OF FIRE
Giclee on Canvas
88 S/N, 12 AP
32" x 32"

HEAVEN'S SONG
Giclee on Canvas
168 S/N, 15 AP
32" x 32"

STILLNESS
Giclee on Canvas
Regular
28 x 42 - 128 S/N 15 AP
Deluxe
40 x 60 - 38 S/N, 5 AP

LOTUS BODHISATTVA
Giclee on Canvas
268 S/N, 25 AP
32" x 32"

MOUNTAIN SPIRIT
Giclee on Canvas
168 S/N, 15 AP
42" x 28"

TIME & TRANSFORMATION
Giclee on Canvas
88 S/N, 12 AP
30" x 40"

PURITY
Giclee on Canvas
88 S/N, 12 AP
20" x 20"

SACRED FLAME
Giclee on Canvas
268 S/N, 25AP
24" x 20"

PALACE PERFORMER
Giclee on Canvas
268 S/N, 25 AP
30" x 24"

STREAMING WIND
Giclee on Canvas
88 S/N, 12 AP
24" x 20"

LANTERNS
Giclee on Canvas
268 S/N, 25 AP
30" x 40"