Shu Sung Wan
舒崇雲

Biography of Shu Sung Wan
Shu Sung Wan is a modern painter, calligrapher, poet and practitioner who was born in Hong Kong in 1956. He exhibited great interest in painting and calligraphy since childhood. Shu studied in Canada and graduated from the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1980. He then embarked on a multidimensional pursuit of all things artistic. He was involved in stage, graphic and interior design and had taught various extracurricular activity classes at the Hong King Baptist University and evening art courses at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Mr. Shu has been a vegetarian since 1985 and has been practicing for 37 years.
Over the years, he has won numerous awards in Hong Kong, New York and the United Kingdom. In 2000, he was named by The International Biographical Center of Cambridge, England as one of the “2000 Outstanding Artists of the 20th Century. His works are collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Taiwan Center, Songshan Shaolin Temple, Nanjing Linggu Temple… Recently, his collectors are growing globally from China and Hong King to the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, India and Taiwan.

In 2017, Shu established the Starfish Art Association to promote art by organizing local and international exhibitions for adults and children artists. He is also the founder of Fun Fun Foundation, a charitable organization specially set up to support projects, to help the needy and to give happiness to people. Through the years, Shu has been actively promoting art culture and travels extensively around the world for solo and art exhibitions. There are lots of coverage with TV, radio, newspapers and magazines on him. Shu is drawing the world‘s attention and respect.

Shu likes to teach through paintings, use his art exhibition as a way to spread the Dharma, enlighten people’s minds, guide people to take vegetarian food for healthy living, share positive life experience with his daily sharing, inspire the soul with poetry, relieve others through conversation, guiding people to find their true self through breathing…

His Works
Shu’s work are uniquely known for its delicate elegance, with themes ranging from all living creatures, human characters, life energy and meditative quests. His skills in uniting pencil drawing, calligraphy, relief, traditional Chinese realistic painting, and color painting lent a stylistic touch distinctive to himself.Shu would paint after meditation to attain a state of insightful aspiration. His works exhibited an interplay of creativity and grandeur, a consummation of Oriental peaceable spirit, Occidental aesthetic faculties, an avid ambitious energy, and a meticulous finesse, and above all, a trigger into one’s own introspection, surpassing the confines of the canvas.
Shu has led an eventful expedition in his lifelong quests. With his upbringing and skilful rendition of each brush stroke, his paintings garnered a pensive tranquility of the energy that flows through the universe and all manifestations of life and passion.