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Shanghai painter's works show a fairy world

Shanghai artist Chai Yiming is a lover of classic Chinese literature and folk tales about fairies, ghosts and mysteries. He is inspired by these stories to paint ink works in which he creates a world inhabited by fairies.

His many paintings adopt the traditional style of blue-green landscapes of Chinese ink art, or are derived from his experiments to present the texture of ink and paper. Dozens of Chai's paintings are now on show at Expecting a Spring Breeze, a solo exhibition in Beijing. 

If you go:
Through Feb 2. Ici Labas gallery, D10, East 798 Art Zone, 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang district. 798東街D10號ICI LABAS 藝棧畫廊