林淑女（b.1955），字香吟，臺灣臺南人。中國文化大學美術學系及國立臺灣師範大學美術學系在職進修碩士班畢業。其工筆善用鉤勒手法將自然物象精準清晰定位，能直接以細筆在畫幅上構思布局。畫風趨向空間感與朦朧體意象表現，引顯生命幽微的哲思。曾任中華工筆畫學會理事長、篆刻學會常務理事。1999年獲中山文藝創作獎。其夫陳宏勉擅書法、印刻，夫婦籌辦創立印證小集（今臺灣印社）迄今40年，積極推廣篆刻藝術。
Lin Shu-nu (b. 1955), courtesy name Xiang-yin, is a native of Tainan, Taiwan. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Chinese Culture University and later completed an in-service master’s degree in the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University. In her gongbi (fine-line) paintings, she expertly employs fine outline techniques to delineate natural forms with clarity and precision, often composing complex layouts directly onto the canvas with a fine brush without preliminary sketches. Her artistic style emphasizes spatial depth and diffused, hazy imagery, evoking quiet philosophical contemplations on life. Lin has served as president of the Chinese Fine Brushwork Painting Association and as an executive board member of the Seal Engraving Society of the Republic of China. In 1999, she was awarded the prestigious Sun Yat-sen Literary and Art Award. Her husband, Chen Hung-mien, is a renowned calligrapher and seal engraver; together, the couple co-founded the Yinzheng Xiaoji (now the Taiwan Seal Society) and have actively promoted the art of seal carving for over four decades.
《誘惑與希望》，為林淑女1999年水墨設色紙本畫作。以工筆技法描繪懸掛的紅蘿蔔、辣椒、玉米和一盞油燈。長耳兔昂首仰望凝視高掛食物，渲染絇麗暖色調暗示油燈照亮的虛幻空間，想望，也存乎在生命的各個情境中，有欲求不得的豐富意象延綿。款：惑為迷亂之源頭，希望卻是夢想之根本，萬物靜觀皆有所得，然生命的演化和遷移，隨時空的流轉，將幻化歸於自然。凝然靜思，實別有一番趣味在心頭。歲在己卯開春於君香室，燈下繪之有感並記。香吟林淑女識。印：盡聞不住。林淑女印。香吟。寓諸無境。
Temptation and Hope is an ink and color on paper painting by Lin Shu-nu in 1999. Rendered in the meticulous “gongbi (fine-line)” technique, it depicts hanging carrots, chili peppers, ears of corn, and an oil lamp. A long-eared rabbit tilts its head, gazing upward at the food suspended high above. Luminous washes of warm color suggest a dreamlike, illusory space illuminated by the lamp, evoking the subtle longings embedded within life’s varied journeys, where rich imagery leaves a lingering resonance of unfulfilled desire.
水墨設色紙本 1999 | 縱114 橫66公分 | 2000年入藏 | 國立歷史博物館 | 典藏編號89–00682
Ink and color on paper, 1999 | 114 × 66 cm | Acquired in 2000 | Collection of the National Museum of History | Accession No. 89-00682
《誘惑與希望》
Temptation and Hope
