Art that Inspires
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Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Australian female watercolor artists. Explore their unique creations and the healing power of art. Join us as we celebrate creativity and connection in every brushstroke.
Artistry in Every Stroke
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Discover the stories and inspirations behind each piece from talented Australian female watercolorists. Their art reflects a deep connection to nature and emotion, inviting you into a personal journey filled with beauty and healing.
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Every brushstroke tells a story, drawing upon the vibrant landscapes and experiences that shape each artist's vision. Feel the inspiration as you explore their works.
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Natalie Zuo
Natalie Zuo is the founder, curator, and exhibiting artist of IWS Australian Women’s Art. She is adept at integrating virtual reality into her curatorial practice, creating immersive and dynamic exhibition experiences. Having lived, studied, and worked across both China and Australia, she brings a rich background in mental health and visual design. Her artistic style is emotionally resonant and delicately expressive, often using visual language to tell deeply personal and heartfelt stories. Natalie's work is rooted in a divine, dreamlike natural aesthetic, with a strong emphasis on spiritual sensitivity and the perception of multidimensional worlds. She seeks to channel this ethereal energy into tangible visual forms, guiding viewers into a state of emotional and perceptual resonance that bridges reality and the unseen.
Coco Wing
Coco Wing is an internationally award-winning artist, an international painting event curator, and the president of IWS New Zealand. She serves as a judge in many international art competitions and has a unique approach to children's and youth art education. She specializes in watercolor painting. Her works are sold in several major New Zealand cities, including Auckland and Dunedin, and many of her pieces have been collected by art collectors in both China and New Zealand. Growing up in Jiangnan, she was immersed in a rich artistic heritage and developed strong skills in both piano and vocal music.
Jianghong Zuo
JiangHong Zuo, from Sanmenxia, Henan Province, has had a passion for painting and calligraphy since childhood. In 2017, she began teaching herself to paint and has since created over a thousand watercolor works. Her artworks have received multiple awards, including the Honorable Mention at the 9th (2024) and 11th (2025) International Online Animal Art Competition, among others.
Anastasia Petryaeva
Anastasia Petryaeva is a watercolor artist and the creator of several watercolor training video courses, which have received high praise from students around the world. Her favorite subjects are natural landscapes and scenic views, with a particular love for waterscapes. She is especially drawn to the image of water, as it evokes a sense of peace and happiness for her.
Jin Qiu
Qiu Jing is the Executive Director of the Taibai Painting and Calligraphy Academy of Shaanxi Province, and holds multiple leadership roles in art institutions across Xi’an, including Vice President of the Mo Zhen Xuan Painting and Calligraphy Academy and the Xi’an Institute of Cultural Industry Development. She is a member of several professional associations such as the Shaanxi Artists Association, the Shaanxi Cartoon Association, and the Chinese Painting Council of the Han-Tang Cultural and Creative Research Institute. Qiu Jing is also an art advisor for disability art organizations and a family art education expert with Beijing Zhizhihua.
Mei Yuan
Mei Yuan is an independent artist who studied under international watercolour master Mr Huang Youwei, Mei Yuan has devoted many years to watercolour painting, specialising in florals that blend realism with romanticism. Their work is distinguished by vivid colours and emotional resonance, using art as a means of healing the spirit and conveying beauty. Mei Yuan ’s paintings have featured in numerous online and in‑person exhibitions and are held in private collections.
Yi Ma
Ma Yi is a fine artist and painter whose work draws on Eastern and Western philosophy, literature, art history and architectural design, honed under leading contemporary modern artists in conceptual art. Raised amid the multi‑ethnic cultures of western Xinjiang, they experiment with free, expressive watercolour techniques to explore women’s reflections on life, reframe emotional values and celebrate the power of love, offering audiences diverse spiritual experiences—culminating in a Bronze Prize at the 2025 International Watercolour Exhibition.
MILA RENAULT
"Mila Renault is a watercolour artist, drawer and architect that immigrated from Brazil to New Zealand in 2017. https://www.milarenault.com" Art has been the antidote for her mental well-being on this journey of moving countries and leaving family. She has painted her childhood and adolescence and even taught watercolour classes while doing her Architectural and Urban Design Bachelor in São Paulo. Life and Motherhood took over and when she moved countries, she felt the urge to start from scratch on a Blank paper. While settling her children at school and life in New Zealand she started doing plein air sketches that evolved to plein-air paintings in watercolour , and studio practice. Art has changed the perception of the local environment and culture. Through her art she has galvanised her sense of belonging. Both Brazil and New Zealand have a stunning natural and constructed environment that Mila but mainly she has used Aoetearoa as inspiration these last few years. She also finds joy and beauty in mundane scenes of characters of daily life. Her artwork has been collected in New Zealand, Brazil and other countries like Australia and Portugal. She is a resident artist at Deciduus and Santie Gallerry where she hold private exhibition and group. As well as group exhibition at Te Taunga Community Hub called Toró Brazil it’s all so much. “Every day I ask myself if what I am doing may touch people and what I can do to improve my skills and expressiveness. I want my art to make people feel happier and be more aware of the divine in nature.” In this way, her artwork has found a home in many people's hearts both in New Zealand and Brazil but also is being collected in America , Canada, Ireland, Portugal and Australia.
Jessie Wei
Jasmine techniques such as Sound healing using Singing bowls and Gongs. The way she broke into painting is through her teachings of Zen while tapping into the buddha conscience following her intuitions. She is a Contemporary Abstract expressionist that follows no rules breaking all boundaries while detached from all expectations. Just like her sound healing, her paintings begins from nowhere that has no ending, her paintings heal. The lines she paints calls to her. Visualizing the infinity of light and the shadow with a pure mind and Zen state. Jasmine navigates a line in a meditative state formulating unity into a formless spectrum into microscopic particles harmonizing her emotions in minute details. Connecting vision, sound and emotions. Jasmine is a humble child describing a magical state of mind. She works with her intuitions and heart. She's like an uncut diamond that radiates light.
Ge Sujia
Ge Sujia is an artist living in Jiangsu, China. She is skilled at embedding her practice deeply within the expressive potential of watercolor media, but her visual language extends far beyond this technique, creating a unique style that blends elements of Chinese ink tradition, early 20th-century satirical cartoons, and the emerging aesthetic of the social critique-laden new woodcut movement. Her figures are solitary, contemplative, and burdened with the weight of reality—constructed in a minimalist yet deeply poignant manner, crafting a simple yet profound visual narrative. Her creative philosophy is deeply rooted in personal experience and the evolution of philosophical thinking, showcasing a challenging yet enlightening journey of self-exploration.
Zheng Xianghua
Born in the ancient city of Xi’an, I was nurtured by the rich cultural heritage of this historic capital since childhood. In 1996, I graduated from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts and later explored various fields including design, media, and photography. During this period, I obtained a postgraduate degree from the IMC program at the University of Hong Kong. Although my experiences were diverse, none brought me the same sense of wonder and fulfillment as watercolor painting. Its ever-changing, unpredictable nature continually inspires my heart, leading me to devote myself to daily practice over many years.Since 2016, I have been rescuing and adopting stray animals. Their innocence and pure affection have deeply touched me, inspiring a lifelong mission to capture these angels with my brush and share their spirit through art. As an old saying goes:“The rise and fall of life do not lie in human hands; one should live by embracing innocence and staying true to nature.”
LiTa HuSin
I have been passionate about art for as long as I can remember, even though my parents discouraged me from pursuing it as a career. Later in life, I embraced the path of an autodidact, teaching myself to paint and immersing in various creative forms. My journey began with oil painting, but my curiosity led me to experiment widely with other mediums such as Japanese clay, paper tole, knitting, and embroidery. In recent years, watercolour has become my true passion, while I still enjoy exploring alcohol ink, acrylic ink, acrylic, and Ebru art. My artistic journey has shifted from realism to abstraction, where I find greater joy, freedom, and room for personal expression. Through abstract painting, I explore emotions, inner landscapes, and the unseen dimensions of life. My works have been recognized internationally: What’s Underneath received the SAA People’s Choice Award and was exhibited in Nottingham, UK (2022); Ampera was selected for the 4th IWS Indonesia Competition (2022); Weather the Storm 2 won a Mention of Honor at the 2nd Olympiart organized by IWS India (2024). Most recently, my abstract painting Love Intertwined was showcased at ArtMoment Jakarta 2025. For me, painting is both discovery and liberation—a lifelong dialogue with colour, form, and spirit.
YanSi
Yansi Watercolor Art Resume Having focused on watercolor creation for years, Yansi is renowned for signature themes of ocean waves, forests, and butterflies, forging a unique style of natural narrative. When painting waves, Yansi excels in the wet-on-wet technique, letting indigo and ultramarine blend and collide on paper to capture the tension between sunlit wave crests and deep-sea currents. For forests, layered emerald and ochre are favored, with empty spaces for light spots to reveal the breath of branches and leaves. The butterfly series highlights the transparent texture of wings, using delicate brushstrokes to connect color gradients—they seem to rest on paper, yet ready to flutter away. Works have been featured in nature-themed group exhibitions, with several pieces from Wave Whispers and Butterfly Perch collected by nature enthusiasts. Yansi adheres to the belief: "Chase light with watercolor, catch wind with brushes"—let flowing colors be another language of natural creatures.
QuFengYu
As a Shanghai-based watercolorist, I devote my practice to exploring the fleeting poetry of flowers. Though blossoms are fragile and short-lived, I seek to preserve their radiance through my brush, allowing these delicate spirits to live on eternally on paper. Over time, my floral series has become a visual diary—each petal and stroke composing a luminous universe, guided by my belief that “a blossom’s impermanence makes its beauty sacred.” Over the past five years, my works have been honored with awards including the 2024 Le Venezie International Watercolor Festival, the 1st IWZ New Zealand International Watercolor Competition, and the 7th Flower International Juried Art Competition (2023, TERAVARNA). My paintings have also been exhibited internationally at venues such as Palazzo dei Trecento in Italy, Auckland Grand Central Hotel in New Zealand, and in the ARTNET online exhibition. Through my art, I aim not only to celebrate nature’s fragile beauty but also to create timeless moments of reverence for life’s transience.
Emma YumingJiang
I am a self-taught artist whose love for painting began in childhood and has since grown into a lifelong passion. Along my journey, I enjoy sharing the creative process on social media, connecting with others through art. In 2025, I was honored to receive the Silver Award at the Australian International Painting Network Exhibition. Watercolour is my primary medium, yet I remain curious and adventurous, exploring acrylic, oil, pastel, and coloured pencil works. To me, art is infinite—an endless journey of discovery that deserves a lifetime of exploration. Nature is the deepest source of my inspiration. The colors, the light, the rhythm and power of the natural world resonate within me as I paint. My works often depict landscapes, seascapes, flowers, trees, and plants—expressions of gratitude to the beauty of nature that nourishes and sustains us. Through my art, I hope to share not only what I see, but also the subtle vibrations and emotions I feel in dialogue with the world around me
GuoYiDan
Yidan Guo is a professional artist and educator based in Pocatello, Idaho, USA. Guo received her MFA degree from the Department of Art at Idaho State University in 2024. Guo also holds a Master of Philosophy in Esthetics from Renmin University of China in Beijing, China, and a BFA degree from Central Academy of Fine Arts-the leading art institution in China. From 2013 to 2019, Yidan Guo taught art at Southern Utah University as a visiting professor in Cedar City, Utah, USA. Prior to this, Guo served as a faculty member with the School of Art at Renmin University in Beijing, China. Guo has held several solo exhibitions both in China and in the United States. Guo’s work has been selected for inclusion in over thirty national and international juried exhibitions. Guo is a Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society of Untied States, and a Distinguished Merit Member of the Idaho Watercolor Society. Guo’s work is part of several collections, including China Central Academy of Fine Arts, The Chinese Artists Association, Southern Utah University, Edgar & Helen Studies Center in Shaanxi, China, and University of Missouri-Kansas City Foundation.
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