Professor Yan Shi Zhong is an eminent professional artist with the Shandong Art Gallery in Jinan.

A graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Art, he gained first prize in the prestigious China/Japan Art Competition in 1991, and again in 1995. His paintings are collected in England, Europe and the USA as well as throughout Australia.

Art critics have described his style as unrestricted and brave, robust and guileless; his composition as strict but nimble; and his paintings as containing profound meaning which reveals itself naturally and gradually to the observer over time.

Professor Yan is a member of the Chinese Fine Arts Association 
and the Shandong Oil Painting Committee.