After completing his military service, Teng worked in advertising art design and real estate agency planning. In 1992, he began to focus on fine art research and practice, especially in oil painting. In 1997, he was invited to hold his first solo exhibition at the Fanshi Art Center in Taichung City. He later continued to create and publish artworks at his home studio in
Dali, Taichung. In 2006, Teng established a studio in the southern district of Taichung City, where he continued creating paintings and started teaching students. During this period, he began documenting his creative process through video recordings, which were later published online for educational and research purposes. Teng relocated his studio back to Dali in 2017. In 2019, Teng began creating a series of
abstract paintings, followed in 2021 by the promotion and exhibition of the first chapter of his
ink and wash cursive paintings. From 1992 to 2008, Teng mainly studied landscape painting, both in realistic or freehand technique. His artistic style during this period was influenced by
French Impressionism, particularly in its representation on light and color in which Teng showed considerable skill, and by the work of
Claude Monet. In addition to landscape projects, Teng also experimented with Impressionist brushwork and colors in combination with themes associated with Eastern culture. His paintings featured characters such as
Guanyin,
Vajrapani,
Vajrayakṣa,
Zhong Kui represented through a fusion of
Chinese and
Western stylistic elements. In later developments, he incorporated
Fauvism into semi-abstract paintings, in a comparable style to
Liao Chi-chun's. Following a visit to
Jiufen in 1995, which became a source of artistic inspiration, he combined Impressionist and Fauvist techniques to complete the piece
Jiufen Spring 50F. From 2009 to 2018, Teng produced the
Misty series. These pieces were created using only a
monochromatic purple-blue palette. Layered, mist-like effects were used to create subdued, cold lighting and indistinct visual forms. The series has been interpreted as expressing and symbolising themes such as history, belief systems, memory, and the passage of time. The
Misty series represents a distinct phase in Teng’s artistic development. Notable works from this period include portraits and thematic paintings referencing figures such as Dutch post-impressionist painter
Vincent van Gogh, Chinese ink painter
Zhang Daqian, Taiwanese painter
Li Meishu, Renaissance painter
Michelangelo, as well as singers Jinmen Wang and Li Binghui who appear in his artwork
Wandering to Tamsui (2016), which also features Tamsui Guanyin Mountain. Martial arts stars Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris. Teng shifted towards abstract painting in 2019, and produced a series of three works entitled:
Ink and Wash Cursive,
One is Everything, and
Qi and Molecules. His abstract pieces, based on
figurative and impressionistic techniques and inspired by forms in
Chinese cursive calligraphy, combined wet ink and dry oil brushwork. The publication of these artworks has opened up new forms of artistic expression in Taiwanese abstract art. an ink and cursive oil painting created in 2021, which predicted that the
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) international cooperation project would release the image of
Sagittarius A on the evening of May 12, 2022,
Taiwan Time. In 2022, Teng began the
Soul of Mountains and Spirits of Trees series, returning to more representational techniques to depict mountain and forest scenery in Taiwan. == Awards ==