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Chan Chiu Lung was born in 1940 in Gui Zhou. Chan is a portraitist in Soviet realistic style who draws on over 50 years of professional experience as an artist. He has been fascinated in art since he was a child. After graduating from college in 1958, he entered professional art organizations with these duties: internal design, exhibition design and film art consultancy. He learned oil-painting under the guidance of Mr. Liu Xing Yuan and studied art from a Russian prestigious painter, A. A. Mylinikov. His unique style integrates the essences of Chinese and Soviet realism paintings. Within the Russian framework of forms and properties he has successfully depicted eastern philosophy and spirit. His artworks reflect vivid lifelikeness, strong individual style, forceful textures, lengthy brushstrokes, dedicated dark-light contrast and vivid time spirit. He exhibited his paintings in Gui Zhou Artwork Exhibition and throughout China during 60-70's. In 1982, he moved to stay in Hong Kong, beginning of his artist profession. Passionately committed to capture the spirits of people, his ambition is for the pursuance of nature color and the enchantment of the mercurial reality. Creating art which is free from affectation is a constant source of fascination to him. He has artworks being collected by local, mainland and overseas collectors. In recent years, he actively participates in Hong Kong art exhibitions. He is chosen as the Vice President of The Hong Kong Oil Painters' Guild. He is the Permanent member of The Hong Kong Artists Society, The Hong Kong Art Club, The Hong Kong Watercolor Art Society and The Guizhou Artists’ Association. His eminent subjects include some well-known celebrities, CEOs and senior executives in Hong Kong, such as chairman of The Four Seas Group, Tai Tak Fung Stephen and artist Mr Au Yeung Nai Chim.
