Still in the old street of Liulichang, she started her career by hanging pictures in old Rong Baozhai.
The girl standing on a stool with a painting pole in her hands is hanging a painting axis in the boy's painting, which may be Toby Lin's self-portrayal.
Toby Lin Tongzi hangs pictures.
For those who study China's calligraphy and painting, Beijing Liulichang has always been the center for literati to play. People who love painting and calligraphy gather here to communicate and are willing to communicate. Toby Lin's recent solo exhibition was held in Miqing Pavilion, No.52 Liulichang West Street, an old-fashioned painting shop that has stood here for nearly 300 years.
Miqing Pavilion is full of imperial spirit. Its name was inspired by the library of Ni Zan, a painter in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. Ganlong feels the old love between Ni Zan and Miqing Pavilion, named after the country name.
Four Treasures of the Study used in the palace at that time, six were all refined here. During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, many cultural figures such as Zhang Zhidong, Xinyu Pu, Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi and Qi Baishi had contacts with the Secret Pavilion, and Mr. Lu Xun was a frequent visitor to the Secret Pavilion. At that time, when dignitaries and literati came to Beijing, they would definitely come here to find a satisfactory study and elegant things.
It seems very suitable for Toby Lin to hold an exhibition here. Young memories, profound traditions, and her works have a deep encounter.
Looking at Toby Lin's daily life and her works, I always feel that the past and the present have their own aesthetics and fashions. No matter 500 years ago, 1000 years ago, or at this moment, the separation of time and space does not mean opposition, but the vague sense of boundaries can be wonderful.
In Toby Lin's words, traditional ink painting is a bit like autumn. Her paintings are more like spring, with more lively things such as pink and willow green.
She painted flowers and grass, a banana leaf, a little wine the night before, a cat looking at people with its head tilted, and a sunny and cloudy sky with a wet and almost transparent face of children. Painting plum blossoms, daffodils and camellias in winter and spring, and painting peony and peony in full bloom in April and May.
I don't draw enough.
For Toby Lin, painting is a very interesting game, and the mentality of the game often leads to greater investment in things.
This has always been all her center and inner motivation.
"Because it is a game, I will be more serious. The goal doesn't appeal to me at all, because it's boring, or the place where the goal arrives is completely different from what I expected. So in fact, what I care about is not the result, but whether I have grown up in this process, whether I have become a better person, and whether I have made more progress than yesterday. "
Over the years, Toby Lin has brewed more and more works that fit her heart in her pen and ink games.
Toby Lin, I'm alone.
In the past ten years, 70 ink paintings seem to have picked up fragments of Toby Lin's progress and changes here.
On the fan, she painted Qi Baishi, one of her favorite "grandfathers". The title is "Things in the world, you are happy". She knows that behind this happiness is the courage that can only be cultivated by "waving 500 knives a day", and she also takes this as her creed.
Everything in the world in Toby Lin is very expensive and enjoyable.
Mr. Lin said that painting, like singing and dancing, is human nature. Just like the oldest human beings, they spontaneously drew the first stroke in the cave, those natural graffiti, which recorded the instinct around and inside.
Just as people temper, grow up and join the WTO, they gradually become unfamiliar and gradually disappear. Just like the "hat" painted by the pilot when he was a child in The Little Prince, only he knows that it was actually a snake that swallowed an elephant.
This is the most authentic and the most important in art.
She said that she is still pursuing the simplest principles of these arts to paint and keep her original nature and sincerity.
20 10 ink painter Toby Lin began to have an idea-
Do something about beauty, tradition and present fun with more people.
She hopes to find a balanced way to communicate with people like breathing-with some like-minded people. For example, every Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone eats moon cakes and watches chrysanthemums together; During the Spring Festival, we can write couplets or listen to Kunqu Opera together.
A year later, "Xuan Tong Classroom" was born.
For a long time, Toby Lin has been used to being "immune". This is her attitude towards life and doing things: "manage your own mood and life, don't use the present as a tool to exchange the future, manage your own small garden, don't even think about it, work hard, and flowers and fruits will go to the good side."
So spare no effort to share others, will be very happy.
In this classroom, Toby Lin specializes in teaching zero-based adults to learn calligraphy and tradition, and of course, it also includes painting, health preservation, classic reading and other broader contents.
The students who come to class come from all corners of the country and come from different fields and majors. Some of them are doctors, lawyers, architects and teachers, some are stay-at-home mothers and artists ... and some even fly in from other places for classes every week or every other week.
For them, the existence of Xuan Tong Classroom and Toby Lin not only means the acquisition and improvement of writing skills, but also the most precious thing is to regain that beautiful initial heart and the ability to perceive "beauty" in the tradition and the present.
Two years ago, Xuan Tong started the course "From the Beauty of Calligraphy to the Beauty of Life" in play online through the Internet. In the form of live broadcast, the beauty of calligraphy and tradition will be shared with more people across the limitations of time and space.
Toby Lin once said in an interview that there were many organizations similar to Xuan Tong during the Republic of China, and they put forward many particularly advanced and solid learning ideas in a very personal way, but they had a great influence on the art of China as a whole.
"I don't want to compare, but I think everything should be viewed from a height."
Since the establishment of Xuan Tong Classroom, Toby Lin has accumulated nearly 2,200 hours of teaching experience. She said that her role is not a top-down digital teacher. She is more like a tour guide, sharing income, growing up and playing with her classmates in traditional culture.
Twenty-seven years later, Toby Lin returned to Liulichang West Street.
Some have changed, and some have never changed. The little seed that was planted in my heart in those days germinated and grew into today's big tree.
Even though she has been doing things, painting is still the core of Toby Lin's life and the theme of her identity.
This time, I came to Miqing Pavilion with a solo exhibition.
Toby Lin said: "This is a very important moment for a person who has been painting with Xuan paper and a brush since he was a child. I hope I can inherit the charm of countless predecessors and pass it on. Traditional poems, paintings, paintings and expressions can all become the kindness and normality of the desk, which makes people play. How lucky and precious this is. "
Toby Lin Xie Shu
As for the "pen-and-ink game", I'll share with you a passage that means she likes very much from Dongpo Branch Forest:
"There is a passage in Dongpo Branch Forest that I like very much.
Yuchang lives in Jiayou Temple in Huizhou, walks under the pavilion, feels tired, thinks about it, and stops in the pavilion. Wang Tingyu is still at the end of the forest, which means how to get it? After a long time, he suddenly said,' What is there to rest here?' Because it was like a hooked fish, it was suddenly freed. If people realize this, though the drums of war are thundering in Enemy at the Gates, if they advance, they will die, and if they retreat, they may as well take a rest.
When Su Dongpo lived in Huizhou, he walked past the Songfeng Pavilion. Tired from walking, he wanted to have a rest when he arrived at the pavilion, but he glanced at it, far above the treetops, and didn't know when he would arrive. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly understood why he had to rest in the pavilion. What can he rest here now?
What is there to rest here? It is beneficial to life and work. Su Dongpo said that if people can understand this, even in the face of war, they can still "get used to it" in the noisy sound outside. Even if it seems to be in a hurry, there are still self-active choices, and the situation is born from the heart, and there is always a chance to be cool and comfortable.
For me, pen and ink is also like this cool and comfortable' cooked rest' place, where I can place myself safely and securely, and also have the joy of freedom and selflessness. As one of my students once felt, with pen and ink, you can finally hide like a small fish. "
For more than 30 years, painting has made Toby Lin the most comfortable place to live. So she works hard with a craftsman's heart and communicates with the world through painting.