于平、任凭夫妇出生于山东省，深受当地的丰富民间艺术氛围所陶冶，同时酷爱山东的民间彩印花布所沿用的漏印技术。他们的作品技法取之于民间，又区别于民间，在乡土艺术的基础上，再创独特艺术形式。
于平、任凭的创作多取材于广为流传的民间故事，所创作的漏印版画具有独特鲜明的风格，内容往往表现中国的传统民风民俗。夫妇二人曾先后在北京、香港及台湾举办个展，作品深受各界人士的爱戴。有些作品更被中国美术馆、北京首都博物馆及北京工艺美术博物馆等收藏。
2008年是中国的鼠年，今年的邮票鼠票即为于平、任凭夫妇设计。
展览时间2008年11月15日至30日
Affection to Native Land –
Recent works by Yu Ping & Ren Ping
Mr. and Mrs. Yu''s excellent artworks were greatly inspired by the ambience of their birth place, Shandong province where folk art is popular and stencil printing method is commonly used for textile dyeing. They learned the printing skills from the folks but at the same time modified the skills to absorb the essence of folk art and transformed it into a distinctive art form.
The theme of Mr. and Mrs. Yu''s works are often based on popular Chinese folklores and their stencil printing artworks are visual presentation of Chinese traditional culture and practices. Their works have been highly recognized and widely exhibited on the mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with some of them becoming the collection of some famous arts museums on the mainland, which include Chinese National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing Museum and Beijing Arts and Crafts Museum.
2008 is the year of the Rat in China; the couple is also the designer of “Year of the Rat” stamp.
Rat corresponds to "Zi" in the Chinese Earthly Branch. Its legendary contribution to the creation of heaven and earth ranked the rat first on the Chinese zodiac. In folk culture, rat is the symbol of bumper harvest, auspiciousness and prosperity. There are many folklores related to it, such as the creation of heaven by a bite of the rat and the rat''s marrying its daughter to a cat. These stories reflect the humor of Chinese culture.
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