Molly
Li
Molly Li is a painter whose work moves between observation and memory: interiors, gardens and coastlines reduced to colour, light and the weight of a single brushstroke. She works in oil and gouache, often in long series that return to the same motif across seasons.
Series
Works
A selection of recent paintings and works on paper. Each work is unique, signed and dated by the artist.
Garden Wall, Late Afternoon
Oil on linen
90 × 70 cm · 2026
The Blue Room
Oil on canvas
100 × 80 cm · 2026
Tide Line, Point Reyes
Oil on panel
40 × 50 cm · 2025 Sold
Three Pears
Oil on panel
30 × 30 cm · 2025
Study in Ochre
Gouache on paper
28 × 38 cm · 2025
Window, February
Oil on canvas
120 × 90 cm · 2025
Fog Over the Headlands
Oil on linen
60 × 90 cm · 2024 Sold
Persimmons on a White Cloth
Oil on panel
35 × 45 cm · 2024
About
Molly Li lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her paintings begin outdoors, as quick studies in gouache, and are brought back to the studio where they are rebuilt slowly in oil.
Her work has been shown in group exhibitions across California and is held in private collections in the United States, France and China.
Contact
For available works, commissions and studio visits.