A few years ago, when I saw the painting works of Xia Junna for the first time, I immediately liked them. Compared to now, my first impression on her is much better. With the increasing reading of her works, I gradually find her works more ordinary. After freshness is lost, the judgment becomes more firm. There is no doubt that Xia Junna is a very precious female talented painter. My mention of gender does not mean demeaning women. In our era, the female painters' advantage is gradually expanded. Their sensitive and delicate sense of art has filled the hidden corners and nurtured our more discerning eyesight not only for themselves but for the male painters with the dominant stage. Xia Junna's advantage lies in that she depends on her natural sensation for color to decorate each work into the festival of colors. Her "decorative" is poetic decoration. The emotional rendering reaches a climax.
Sea Tide
Xia Junna is very lucky, because she has gone through a smooth road greeted with flowers, applause, awards and honors. Meanwhile, she is highly smart. Her cleverness is not only reflected in the painting, but in her attitude after her achievements. She does not feel proud and she deals with the smoothness in her life road with a common attitude. She extremely treasures her success and never satisfies what she has achieved. Facing the expanded art space, she feels very confused and distressed. She is constantly making new attempt and new exploration from the subject matter to shape language. She is thinking no matter whether she has realized that what she was thinking about was the nature of art. Depending on her own understanding and own conditions, she gives a philosophical answer, "Art should have its lighter side. In my view, the power of an individual is minimal. It is recommendable that a painter is able to faithfully express he true feelings".
Yes, Xia Junna has a deep love for life. She paints what she has seen, what she has thought and the real feelings in her daily life. She hopes to paint everything in life that is instant and improvised stimulating her creative passion. People are impressed not only by her painting skills but by her true feelings including the joyfulness and satisfaction in the process of creation.
The painting is "noble" artistic work, but it is more of an extraordinary craft activity. Only people who feel happy in this art craft could give their wisdom, spirituality and perception into full play. It can be said that craft is the foundation of painting and the material sustenance of the spirit of creators. Without craft, there is no painting. Xia Junna pays close attention to the craft of expression ways and has spent a lot of time in the mastery of pigment and canvas texture. She insisted on improving her skills to make the artistic language more pure and more expressive to present her feelings. The reason why her paintings attract people's enduring attention is inseparable from her great efforts in this aspect.
Xia Junna has a long road ahead of her. She knows herself and she will constantly move forward towards the goal. We believe that with her passion for painting, her diligence and her unique thinking, she will draw a new world.
