How selling greeting cards in a vintage shop gave Xue Wang the confidence to dream bigger

Xue Wang’s paintings look elegant at first glance beautifully composed women, soft palettes, carefully balanced spaces. But stay with them a little longer and something shifts. A strange detail interrupts the harmony. A quiet tension begins to surface. Raised in northern China and first trained through fashion, Xue creates work that lives between sweetness and unease, surface and subconscious. Before becoming a full-time painter, she sold handmade greeting cards in a vintage shop in Southwark a