About Me

After years of traversing San Francisco’s enchanting Chinatown, its backstreet bookstores and basement galleries, I discovered and became captivated by the art of Chinese brush painting.  To undertake this art form, one must commit to a scholarly life. Through the study of calligraphy, poetry and music, one’s character is developed, which appealed to the “eternal student” part of my own nature.  After 18 years of diligent studies, I have settled into Da xieyi, a style of painting that seeks to express the spirit of objects rather than their reality. I am privileged to have studied under internationally known and respected teachers Chow Shung-hwa (Celia Huddleson), Master Miao Kim Sung, and Professor Aiquin Zhou.