Ginette Wang
Born in Taiwan
Ginette was born in Taiwan, grew up in New Zealand and had lived and worked in Hong
Kong, Taipei and Auckland before settled in Melbourne. She is an international multi-award
winning artist, illustrator and published author.
She is well-versed in many media. Her mixed culture background had a profound influence in
her art creation. Combining her Western and Chinese painting as well as her Chinese
Calligraphy skills, she creates artworks with strong emotions – they can be peaceful as they
can be bold and exuberant.
Her strong passion in art started since she was a child and the skill sets she developed over
the years have led her thriving in different media and develop her unique styles. She enjoys
painting a wide range of subjects, from impressionistic watercolour landscapes, urban scenes,
boats, animals, portraits to bold abstract mixed media large size paintings.
Great masters like Caravaggio, Monet, Miro, Gaudi, Degas, Kandinsky had great influence
on her. Music, life, philosophy and culture are the main sources of her inspiration. Her
artworks evolve organically from impressionistic to abstract and surrealism. She loves to
design her paintings by using contrast and tensions between colours, shapes, textures, tones to
create a sense of movements, space and energy flow. Every piece of artwork is unique and
timeless.
She has won many awards internationally, including the First Prize in the Watercolour
category at the Auckland Royal Easter Art Show 2016. In 2021, she was awarded one of the
“Top 100 artists” by China Art at the recent online exhibition in China.
Her artworks have been exhibited and held in private collections locally and
internationally. Several of her paintings has been in permanent collection of Château
d’Orquevaux art collection in France as well as in Xian Yang Art Association
In 2019, she has been invited by the Xianyang Culture and tourism Bureau to exhibit at ” In
Watercolour, we bond!” China New Zealand International Watercolour
Invitational Exhibition.
She has been accepted to several international artist residency programs:
• Ginestrelle Artist residency, Assisi, Italy 2022
• Olive Stack Gallery, Listowel, Ireland 2021
• Château d’Orquevaux, France, 2020
Apart from painting and writing, she also teaches art workshops internationally and invited to
be a member of the juror panel for international art competitions in different parts of the
world organised by World Fund of Arts and Euroasian Art Union. She is the current country
head for International Watercolour Society New Zealand.

Recent Achievements:

• Awarded international artist in the ” Top 100 Artists” online exhibition, China Art 2021

• Invited to judge for the International Exhibition and Competition of Modern Art, St Petersburg, Russia 2021

• Selected artist for Assisi, Italy artist residency Program 2022

• Invited to be judge for WATERCOLORium International Watercolour competition, Barcelona 2020

• Invited to be judge for WATERCOLORium International Watercolour competition, Russia 2020

• Selected artist to exhibit in IWS Hong Kong 2020 exhibition

• Exhibit at << In Watercolour, We Bond! >> China New Zealand International Invitational Watercolour Exhibition at Gululang Bridge, Xian, China, 2019

• Awarded with The Denis Diderot Grant, France Jan2019

• Selected artist for the artist-in-residence program at Château d’Orquevaux, France, 2019

• Selected artist, IWS Romania <>, Bucharest, Romania, 2019

• Exhibition <> showcase my contemporary Chinese paintings, Tacit Gallery, Hamilton. Feb 2019

• Appointed country head of International Watercolor Society (IWS) New Zealand, 2018

• Selected artist, IWS Nepal Biannual Festival, Nepal 2018

• Solo Exhibition “A Moveable Feast”, Northart Gallery, Auckland, 2018

• Member of Board of Trustees for Mairangi Art centre, 2019

• 3rd Prize in Watercolour New Zealand competition 2018

• Won 4th place in the Watercolour category at the Auckland Royal Easter Art Show 2017

• Merit award at Mairangi Arts Centre members exhibition 2017

• 1st Prize and a Merit award at the AWS Annual Merit Award Exhibition 2016

• 1st Prize in the Watercolour category at the Auckland Royal Easter Art Show 2016

• 3rd prize and People’s Choice Award at the AWS Annual Merit Award Exhibition 2015