Birds Aspire to New Heights
Chinese Wall Scroll

Reach New Heights

A poem about yellow warbler.

Close up view of the bird artwork mounted to this silk brocade wall scroll

The title written on this painting is 出谷傳聲美 遷喬立志高 and reads "Chū gǔ chuán shēng měi qiān qiáo lì zhì gāo" and means, "Out of the valley to convey the beauty of sound, moving upwards determined to reach new heights." In my research, I learned this poem is specific to Yellow Warblers. The characters following the title, 庚寅年建秋作, are simply the artist's signature and an indication that it was painted in 2010.

About the Art

This is a simplistic painting style, but it also incorporates a lot of detail. This painting really mimics the style of Chinese artwork that has been around for thousands of years.

This artwork is completely hand-painted and is mounted to a handmade silk wall scroll in our workshop.

About the Artist:

The artist's name is (Wang Jian-Qiu). He lives in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong Province in Northern China (about 5 hours south of Beijing). I was introduced to this artist's work at Qin Xia's studio in Jinan. This artist has been a long time friend of Qin Xia (You may recognize Qin Xia's name from artwork in our flowers and birds category). Wang Jian-Qiu also does some great detailed beautiful woman paintings, and occasionally does some landscapes for us as well.