Xue Liang  

male, born in 1956, is a native of Jingjiang county, Jiangsu province. He is now a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a professional artist in the Jiangsu Chinese Painting Institute and director of its Art Committee, a connoisseur of arts in the Chinese Culture Department as well as director of the Chinese Gongbi Painting Association.

 

Xue graduated from the Arts Department at the Nanjing Institute of Arts in 1982. He won the China Cup and Second prize of the Peony Cup at the International Painting Competition, won the Silver prize at the First Jiangsu Arts Festival. Furthermore, he won the Grand prize at the NHK International Ink-and-Wash Painting Competition in Japan. Many solo exhibitions of his works have been held in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. There are some art works albums have been published.

 

Xue is good at landscape and flower-and-bird genre paintings. Because of his solid traditional painting technique together with his profound literature accomplishments and his unique sense of appreciation of the beauty as well as the way of his thought, he is acclaimed as the “Genius of Jiangnan”. All of his landscape works are full of spirituality of nature and illusory imagination. He has formed a new school of flower-and-bird painting with distinctive composition and rich color.