Lot’s of texture, muted colours, and the feeling of a fresco painted on a broken wall is Yin Xin’s talent.
Yin studied at Xinjiang Normal University and the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. In 1988, he left China to attend the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He moved to Europe in the 1990s, where he decided to embark on his signature style after an emotional experience viewing paintings by Georges de La Tour. His previous shows include group presentations at the Shanghai Museum (2005), Musée Courbet (2007), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (2016). In 2017, Notre Dame Cathedral commissioned him to create paintings of the Virgin and Child and Saint Paul Tchen.