My name is Zhenlian, I am an artist from China, I have been art teacher for both Primary and Secondary schools in China, now I am retired , I devote all my time to paintings , in fact, painting is my most favorite pastime,it helps me forget the loneliness of age.
I have not much formal training in painting, I am self-taught and I have gone my way through much hard work and practices.
I like both oil paintings and Chinese paintings, I like to cover my canvas with a profusion of colours in their dream-like imageries . I like to draw nature, animals, and imaginative paintings.
I have no training at all in Chinese paintings, but recently I have started trying Chinese paintings, I realize that experimenting with water and colour on very thin Chinese papers can be fun, the results produce is very different from oil paintings, in fact, Chinese paintings is the integration of the real and the symbolic, which fits very well with my temper, all my paintings are not just simple reproductions of the real world, they are combinations of the real and the imaginative.