Zhao Haipeng - born 1945

Zhao Haipeng is a well-known Chinese printmaker who has exhibited in more than 20 countries outside China. His works represent the traditional Chinese method of woodblock printmaking with water-soluble inks.
The Woodcut Art of Zhao Haipeng

Mr. Zhao Haipeng's subjects and his technique are rooted in the typical style of the artists of Eastern China. The focus is on landscape images and nature. The old tradition in Chinese arts of "expressing more by showing less" is omnipresent in the artist's works.

Zhao Haipeng works in the traditional method of woodcutting using one separate block for each color (in contrast to the reduction woodblock print). The edition size is - typical for Chinese printmakers - small with 25 to 100 copies. All prints that we have seen were signed, numbered, titled and dated in pencil on the lower margin. The impressions are printed on a hand-made, thick Chinese paper - a kind of laid paper.