Wang Dan – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Wang Dan is one of the leading figures of contemporary Chinese seal carving and calligraphy. As Vice-Chairman of the China Calligraphers Association and Director of its Seal Carving Committee, he represents the authoritative mainstream of the art, with a body of work that spans seal carving,

Su Donghe – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Su Donghe is a distinguished contemporary seal carver whose career connects the great masters of the Jinan and Shanghai traditions. He has carved seals for many of China’s most celebrated cultural figures and even for the Thai royal palace — a career of quiet, widely honoured

Shi Kai – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Shi Kai is one of the most influential seal carvers of contemporary China, renowned for a style of arresting ‘cold elegance’. A former Vice-Chairman of the Fujian Provincial Calligraphers Association and member of the Seal Carving Committee of the China Calligraphers Association, he turned professional in

Zhong Guokang – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Zhong Guokang is a contemporary Chinese calligrapher and seal carver celebrated for his fiercely original manner — a knife-like brush, a brush-like knife, and a signature red seal paste of his own invention that carries the fragrance of ink. His art is bold, untamed and unmistakably

Yin Hailong – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Yin Hailong is the President of the Seal Carving Academy of the China Art Research Institute and a leading innovator in seal script and seal carving. His bronze-inscription style seals (jinwen yin) — archaic, mysterious and boldly individual — have made him one of the most

Zhou Shangyong – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Zhou Shangyong is a seal carving artist who carries forward the classical traditions of Qin-Han seals and the refined yuanzhuwen (“round-character”) style of Zhao Shuru and Wang Fu’an. Born into a scholarly family in Chongqing, he has dedicated himself to the most disciplined and elegant branch

Peng Shaohui – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Peng Shaohui is a seal carving artist in the refined “gongwen” tradition — steady, elegant and meticulously composed. A student of the celebrated master Gao Qingchun and an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, he carves classical literary themes into precious stones such as tianhuang, creating seals

Zhang Guozhong – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Zhang Guozhong is a Heilongjiang calligrapher whose running-cursive script — nurtured on the wild cursive of Zhang Xu, Huai Su and Huang Tingjian — is known for its weight, strength and untrammelled beauty. A member of the China Calligraphers Association, he writes with a full, vigorous

Xu Mingchun – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Xu Mingchun is a young master of calligraphy and seal carving — a member of the China Calligraphers Association who won the highest prize at the 10th National Calligraphy and Seal Carving Exhibition, China’s most important calligraphy competition. A member of the Shen Peng studio at

You Feng – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist You Feng is a young seal carving artist of the Wuyin tradition whose work unites painting, calligraphy and seal carving in one disciplined hand. A graduate of the Sichuan University of Arts and Science, she has been honoured in national seal competitions and exhibitions — her

Li Gangtian – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Li Gangtian is a titan of contemporary Chinese seal carving and calligraphy — Vice-President of the Xiling Seal Art Society, winner of the 5th China Calligraphy Lanting Award (Art Prize), and a former editor-in-chief of “Chinese Calligraphy” magazine. His art unites seal script, clerical script, regular

Zhang Chong – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Zhang Chong is a rare artist who unites the four arts — poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal carving — and whose pictorial seals (xiaoxing yin) are considered without precedent in the modern era. A graduate of Tsinghua University’s Academy of Arts & Design and former visiting

Nie Yuanxin – Chinese Seal Carver About the Artist Nie Yuanxin is a master seal carver whose journey from stone-cutter to nationally recognised artist embodies the Chinese ideal of “perseverance polishes stone, and stone polishes the man”. A Tujia artist skilled in carving jadeite, agate and crystal, he has cut more than ten thousand seals