About

Lu Zhongjian is an artist of critical acclaim who lives in Guangdong Province in southern China. Born in 1961 in Luoyang, China, he has been fascinated by the beauty of the Chinese countryside from a young age and deeply inspired by the rich history of his birthplace. He went on to learn a combination of Chinese and Western art, the latter through the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Zhongjian’s art cover a broad range of themes, from highly meticulous and detailed bird-and-flower paintings, to bold and expressive splashed-ink landscapes, to magnificent large-scale figure paintings. While his life and work are deeply rooted in Chinese culture, he also takes inspiration from Western art and is highly innovative in developing his own unique style.  

He has won different awards and accolades over his long and accomplished career, including the Gold Medal of the First Chinese Painting Exhibition of Guangdong Province, 1999, and the Gold Medal of Galaxy Award by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China, 2002. In recognition of his achievements, he has been invited to exhibit and deliver talks within China and internationally, in places such as Hong Kong and Macao (China), La Réunion (France), Cambridge (UK), Kuala Lumpur and Penang (Malaysia), and Singapore. In July - September 2024, forty of his brushwork paintings were exhibited in Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, the first time that Chinese paintings of such quality and range had been exhibited across the Cambridge colleges.