Taiwanese artist Cyn Liu (Yu-Hsin Liu) pursued her doctoral studies at King’s College London, where she also trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During her time in the UK, she worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital, accompanying children through art and mindfulness therapy, helping them find calm and light through every mindful breath.
In 2020, she launched the podcast The Mindful Heart (琉璃心), which soon reached audiences in over a hundred countries worldwide. Deeply concerned with the COVID-19 pandemic, she completed Harvard Medical School’s “COVID-19 CME Professional Education Program”, earning continuing medical education certification. With a strong sense of educational mission, she was appointed as a certified lecturer by the Taiwan Ministry of Education, teaching art as a form of mindfulness practice—where each brushstroke becomes a path to inner clarity and stillness. Since 2021, she has collaborated with the Cathay Charity Foundation, using art to sow seeds of love and hope.
In May 2024, she received the Cross-Strait Golden Excellence Award for Arts and Culture. Two months later, she was honored as an “Outstanding Artist” at the Madrid Chinese-European Annual Conference, and in August, her works were exhibited at an Italian royal palace, drawing coverage from multiple media outlets. In August 2025, she was invited by the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art in Japan to hold her solo exhibition titled “Beauty of Sentient Life” (有情ある生命の美).
Her paintings are more than colors and lines—they are manifestations of compassion. Rooted in Taiwanese sentiment and the joys and sorrows of human existence, her canvases radiate light that reminds viewers: love endures through suffering, and hope arises amidst impermanence. One of her oil paintings, depicting Cundi Bodhisattva seated upon a lotus, was donated to the Humanistic Education Foundation of Taiwan, where it was auctioned with a starting bid of USD 5,000.
藝術家劉于新
The Mindful Heart
瑠璃心（琉璃心Podcast）
劉于新的筆下，線條並不是描摹物象的邊界，而是如溪水般的流動；色彩也不是停留在畫布之上，而像花香一樣滲入觀者的心田。
她的畫，沒有喧鬧的呼喊，只有如蓮花綻放般的安靜，讓人想起《金剛經》裡的一句——「應無所住，而生其心」。
走進展廳，就像走進了一場緩慢的呼吸。每一幅畫都是一個當下，沒有過去，也不急著奔向未來。
那是一種正念的凝視——凝視著生命的流轉、四季的更替，以及微塵裡隱含的慈悲與光明。
不僅是一場畫展，更像是一段靜靜的行旅——帶領我們穿越色彩，穿越形與無形，走回那個不需言說、卻深知彼此的心。
藝術家劉于新 