Born in 1942 in Shijiazhuang, Jizi began his art career in the late 1950s when he first began to study and create Chinese landscape paintings. Jizi experienced the painting movement of Chinese realism in the 1950s as well as the transformation from modernism to ink painting in the 80s. Jizi was also involved in the experimental ink movement of the 1990s. Through his experience of practicing art in these phases, he immersed himself in an independent exploration of Chinese ink – understanding ink art through meditation and forming his own language of painting and Jizi describes his works as “Ink Dao Landscapes”, which stresses the spirit of landscape art. He has continued to strengthen the artistic characteristics through his use of Eastern thinking and todays visual experience to deepen the potential of ink. Jizi has thus furthered the exploration of the relationship between ink language and nature’s inner culture.
