Bin Zhang 张斌

As a child, Bin Zhang had always taken an interest in art and began to draw and paint at a very young age. Although his engineering education lead him to a career as a research scientist, Bin’s strong passion for art has always persisted. Towards the beginning of 2002, Bin started to take art lessons in oil painting, following the classic teaching methods of traditional art academies. Since then, Bin has encountered many blessings. The internationally renowned realism painter Mr. Mau-Kun Yim, who is also Bin's friend and mentor, has played an important role in Bin’s art journey, by introducing him to methodic approaches in drawing and painting practices. Bin loves to paint landscapes. To him, expressing the adoration of the wonderful creation around him with light and shadow, line and mass, soft edge and hard edge, cool color and warm color is the most satisfying aspect of being a painter. Bin’s landscape painting style is under the influence of twentieth century tonalist painters such as Isaac Levitan and George Innes as well as contemporary landscape painters such as Michael Workman and Marc Bohne.
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