One piece from Chen's  Red and Black series which was showcased at a landmark department store in Milan, Italy, in January. [Photo provided to China Daily]

In her presentation, she showed her illustrations. She won the opportunity, and was given the chance to exhibit.

Besides painting, in 2018 Chen founded an art salon in Shenzhen called the Witches' Feast in order to provide a platform for young Chinese artists to communicate. Twenty-six artists attended the inaugural event, in which they created art by using just two specified colors to create a "magic world", while at the second event in 2019, 40 artists took part, and they focused on creating work based on the "mysterious orient". The exhibitions that followed attracted many visitors.

Chen plans to organize the third iteration of the Witches' Feast in April 2021, and this time the theme for participating artists' creative works will be related to hope and energy, she says.