Chiayun’s artistic journey began in her hometown, Taipei, and has since taken her through London, Antwerp, Brussels, Bergamo, and now Paris. Her practice spans painting and sculpting, drawing inspiration from both grand shifts and the subtle textures of everyday life. While her work often begins with personal experience, it gently moves beyond, touching on emotions and atmospheres that many may find familiar: stillness, solitude, a quiet closeness with one’s surroundings, and a sense of belonging.

Raised in a four-generation female household, femininity became an intuitive language, naturally ingrained into her imagery. It emerges through the bodies she paints and the forms she builds, through gestures of holding, receiving, and offering. Her works explore the tenderness of existence and the layered connections that bind us to ourselves, to others, and to the spaces we inhabit.

She works with oil paint, acrylic, oil pastel, and graphite on canvas and paper; she shapes forms with clay and plaster through an intuitive, extemporaneous process. Writing is woven into her practice, running alongside her visual work like a second current. Through words, she captures the textures of memory, emotion, and daily life, threading them into the fabric of her paintings and sculptures. Her self-published book marks a deepening of this thread, revealing the delicate conversations between language and image.