Peihe Xu

Calm Before the Storm, 2025

210 × 297 × 0.1 mm Acrylic paint on paper

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$500 WINNER AGES 13-15 YEARS

Peihe Xu is a young artist from Barker College who studies at Jeffrey Chen Art Studio and was a Mosman Youth Art Prize 2023 finalist. She enjoys exploring artistic mediums and techniques, but mainly paints, inspired by sunlight, landscapes, animals and people and artists like Jennifer Gennari and Will Rochfort.

 

Artwork Statement:

This work was inspired by my time at a rowing camp in the rural NSW town of Berry. The riverside was already like a painting, with rolling clouds like a warm blanket and the trees and plants being illuminated by sun rays peeking through an incoming storm. It captures the serenity of the countryside and the distant mountains being signature of the Australian landscape.