Born in Zhengzhou, Fang Zhiyong is currently completing his master’s degree at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Although he has progressively moved away from his training in classical Chinese landscape painting, Fang Zhiyong continues to find inspiration from his surrounding environment, and particularly the grandeur of nature. Today, Fang is interested in using ink as the theoretical starting point for artistic creation, while working with and integrating different materials into his approach. He seeks to take patterns and forms found in nature, and translate them into personal expressions unbound by artistic media or convention.