Pearl Lui is an Artist & Calligrapher based in NJ & NYC.

Specializing in hand-painted watercolor illustrations, hand-drawn illustrations in inks, colored pencils, and graphite, hand-crafted fine artwork, and hand-lettered brush calligraphy, Pearl’s work is marked by soft and ethereal exploration of expressive lines, lyrical forms, and painterly textures, inspired by nature.

Committed to creating a kinder and more sustainable world, Pearl's artwork delights in the whimsy in and around us, inviting a deeper connection with the natural world and encouraging us to appreciate subtle beauty.

Faerie Surrealist Ink Collection 2025: Eight artworks of whimsically reimagined orchids painted based on real orchids from her home studio collection of plants, Pearl created these 5x7 originals using carbon ink. Personifying these well-loved moth orchids through its roots abstractly crowned with its blooms, and confidently sophisticated and elegant.

In Pearl’s own words, “my love for charismatic florals and whimsical seashells perhaps started when I first came across the unforgettable pansies, irises, and daisies and cute little oysters in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland.” Highly visual since childhood, her artistic influence spans a huge spectrum from Van Gogh and Matisse, to O’Keeffe, to cartoonists such as Disney, Keene (Family Circus), and Anderson (Marmaduke), to traditional Chinese ink brush paintings.

“I should see the garden far better, if I could get to the top of that hill: and here’s a path that leads straight to it—at least, no, it doesn’t do that— but I suppose it will at last. But how curiously it twists! It’s more like a corkscrew than a path! Well, this turn goes to the hill, I suppose—no, it doesn’t! This goes straight back to the house! Well then, I’ll try it the other way.”

— Alice, Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Pearl is a seasoned marketing leader with over 20 years in corporate who now pursues art full-time. Her greatest joys are raising her daughters with her husband, playing with her two German Shepherds, tending to her plants, newly birding, and sketching at her local nature conservancies.

Pearl holds a Bachelors of Business Administration in Computer Information Systems minoring in Graphic Communications. She is currently pursuing a Natural Sciences Illustration Certificate, a Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education program. Expected completion, Spring 2026.

Follow Pearl’s daily life as an artist @pearllui on Instagram and stay up to date about her Fine Art & Stationery business @deardaughtersdesign.