Collection: Still Life with Books

The Book Fragrance Collection brings together original still life oil paintings centered on books, flowers, vessels, and familiar objects from everyday life. These oil paintings of books explore the quiet relationship between reading, memory, and the objects we live with.

In Yang Huaxi’s paintings, books are more than objects in a composition. Resting beside flowers, ceramics, and time-worn belongings, they carry traces of reading and daily life. Painted slowly in layers of oil, each original oil painting reflects the artist’s long-standing interest in ordinary objects and the marks that time leaves behind.