Linda Durnell Art Consultants

QiRe Ching

QiRe Ching combines decorative pattern with images from nature, often in settings remotely suggestive of landscapes. It is a reference to that divine spirit that inhabits our experience of both interior and exterior spaces. He finds in the vocabulary of decorative pattern, with its repetitive elements and nature motifs an expression of an urge extending beyond the function of surface ornamentation. It becomes a meditative vehicle striving for the transcendent. His paintings are at times organized into sections that are meant to suggest rooms through which one might wander. His work is informed by his interest in Persian miniatures and illuminated manuscript pages, which to him represent a time particularly in art, when opposing worlds mixed, and influenced each other.

QiRe has received his MFA from the San Francscio Art Institute. He has had a longstanding interest in Jungian psychology and is a member analyst of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.