Exclusive Dialogue: Creat Art and Golf

Hudson Zhang approaches golf course painting not as a mere transcription of scenery, but as an aesthetic and conceptual reimagining of space. He challenges the conventions of linear perspective typical in Western landscape art—arguing that such fixed viewpoints cannot capture the complexity, rhythm, and topographical nuance of a golf course. Nor, he insists, can photography or video fully substitute for the interpretive insight of the painter’s hand.⠀

Drawing on the multi-point perspective traditions of classical Chinese landscape painting, Zhang raises the vantage point and restructures the visual field. This allows him to articulate the layered interplay between fairways, bunkers, greens, and the surrounding environment—revealing a compositional logic shaped as much by golf course design as by natural landscape.⠀

Zhang’s work represents not only a formal innovation but also a cultural dialogue. He plans to further explore the intersections between Eastern and Western landscape traditions, positioning his golf paintings as both homage and critique—a painterly bridge between scroll and course, ink and turf. This fusion of painterly vision and course strategy is central to his golf landscape art. He also plans to develop a broader study comparing Western and Chinese approaches to landscape painting—with his own work as a bridge between the two traditions.