Storytelling through Colour & Composition
Collectable Fine Art & Prints
Fine Art Prints
The colours here came before the composition — deep reds and burnt oranges burning across the sky, urgent and alive in the way London at dusk so often feels. Gold bleeds down into the wet pavement of Westminster Bridge, the light pooling beneath anonymous figures who move through it without pause. Blue holds the edges, quiet against the heat.
Big Ben anchors the scene, but it is not the subject. What slowly emerges is the feeling of the city in that particular hour — familiar, overwhelming, and oddly intimate all at once. The brushwork stays loose, the forms just resolved enough to be recognised.
Summer has a colour and it's not one thing. It's blue and green refusing to be separate. In colour psychology, blue and green together create harmony, a natural balance that the eye instinctively relaxes into. Nature figured this out long before we did.
This painting embodies summer. The way the water holds the trees and the trees dissolve back into the water. That specific warmth you only find in July, when everything feels lush and the light lingers longer than it should.
And then there are the boats. An invitation to step in. Climb aboard, untie the rope, go. There is a latent movement here. The geraniums on the bow, the small flag catching air, a sense that this scene is mid-breath rather than frozen. The canal doesn't feel like a photograph. It feels like a place you could inhabit.
La Ville began with a simple observation in Little Venice, London: water doesn't just reflect, it transforms. Reflections within this painting dissolve the boundary between the solid and the fluid, the observed and the imagined.
The composition is deliberately constructed to pull the viewer in via the narrowing canal into the depth of the scene. So the perspective becomes an invitation, not simply to look at a place, but to step into it and inhabit it.
That openness is intentional.
Each viewer arrives with their own narrative, their own sense of what unfolds beyond the frame. Such specific gives way to the personal, and the painting becomes a shared space between artist and audience.
London Print Collection
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Fine Art Prints
Printed in London
Li Huajing
London Based Artist
Co-creating stories through colour and composition.
Colour and composition are languages and not mere aesthetics. We often overlook how these factors shape our perception and evoke feelings.
I predominantly focus on analogous colours (colours adjacent to one another) to cultivate harmony and softness in my paintings.
The composition is left intentionally open for viewers to inhabit the stories inside each painting, rather than just observe.
So there is a shared space between artist and audience, a dialogue to co-create the narrative of each painting.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Work with Me
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For brands and spaces that want to communicate through colour with intention. I bring the same trained eye to help you find a palette that feels true.
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A hands-on experience exploring colour, light, and the art of noticing. Whether you're a complete beginner or a practising artist, these workshops invite you to slow down and see differently.
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Every commission begins with a conversation. If you'd like an original piece created with a specific place, person, or feeling in mind, I'd be glad to hear what you're imagining.
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