陳冠清出身貧寒，習畫動機源於童年時期山居景色之記憶入畫，故於工作之餘，以國畫寫生方式描繪大自然，作品風格細膩、真切，畫界稱譽「走獸眼神內顯出思考能力，畫花鳥草蟲如欲破紙而出」之視覺效果。並突破重彩重墨之相容性，使樸實中華麗顯出高貴質感。
聚焦賞析：畫作展現視覺傳達效果：山水重留白，以「無痕或半痕筆法」，使雲海有「漂浮、堆疊」或如薄霧輕煙；畫水瀑現「飛躍跳動」；畫平潭「清澈深淺見底」。
　
Chen was born in a poor family and the motivation for his learning how to paint is to paint the landscape from his childhood memory. Thus, he draws nature in Chinese paintings outside of work. His style is detailed and realistic and is thus praised by the art circle that his paintings exhibit the visual effects which ”the eyes of his animals are as if they were able to think and his birds and flowers are as if they were coming of the canvas alive.” In addition, he is able to go beyond the compatibility of heavy colors and ink and brings out the quality texture out of pristineness.
Focus：His paintings exhibit the visual-conveying effects: the essence of landscape paintings lays in leaving space, by the technique of “traceless or half-trace brush strokes” to exhibit the “floating and accumulating” sea of cloud or thin fog & light smoke; his water falls exhibit “a sense of flying and jumping”; while his lakes exhibit “a sense of crystal clearness that it’s as if you could see right to the bottom.”