Zhou Jianhua, born in 1971, is a contemporary professional painter, a master of Chinese arts and crafts ceramics, a national first-class artist, a master of Chinese calligraphy and painting ceramics, a member of the China Art Association, a member of the China Arts and Crafts Association, a member of the Shandong Ceramics Association, a member of the Shandong Arts and Crafts Association, a distinguished painter of Shandong Zibo Huaguang Chinese porcelain, an art consultant of Shandong Zibo Taishan Porcelain Industry, a special painter of the Qingzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and a special painter of the Jiangxi Ceramic Research Institute. "Shandong Satellite TV", "Shandong News", "Cultural Tourism Capital", "Oriental Time and Space" and many other TV stations in Shandong and "Jinan Daily", "Dazhong Daily", "Zibo Daily", "Zibo Evening News" and many other newspapers and financial media special reports.
Mr. Zhou Jianhua has been fond of painting since childhood, and graduated from the Jingdezhen branch of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Correspondence University in 92. After graduation, he was carefully taught by many teachers such as Lu Ru, Hou Yibo, Bai Hai, Le Qiong, Xu Guosheng, etc., and was guided and nurtured by many masters in Shandong, such as Yan Xiangong, a master of Chinese ceramic art, and Li Kechang, one of the four great masters of the Shandong Lu School, an Asia-Pacific master. Gathering the strengths of all families, Zhou Jianhua's ceramic art creation has a unique style, and is good at figures, flowers and birds, animals, landscapes, especially the characters of blue and white Zhong Kui, Bodhidharma, Lao Tzu out of the customs, all happy, Guanyin sending children, five old and four young and other themes. The works are classical and elegant, novel in style, and have a strong national flavor.
Mr. Zhou Jianhua has been engaged in ceramic creation for more than 30 years, and his ceramic works have won awards all over the country and are deeply loved and collected by collectors at home and abroad. In 2007, the ceramic work "Guanyin Sending the Child" was collected by the president of TCL Group Co., Ltd. In June 2011, the ceramic art "More than Years in a Row" won the first prize in the first China Ceramic Art Blue and White Glaze Red Research Association; in August 2012, the works "Peach Blossom with Human Face" and "Love" won the "Lifetime Achievement Award for Ceramic Art" in Diaoyutai, Beijing State Guesthouse In 2013, his work "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" was collected by the Korean Consulate in Guangzhou; in December 2016, his work "Great Luck" won the Excellence Award in the Zibo Taoliu Tourism Commodity Innovation Design Competition; in 2017, his works "Dharma Face Wall" and "Zhong Kui Shenweitu" won the "Shenlong Cup" gold medal at the 9th China (Shandong) Arts and Crafts Fair, and his work "Lao Tzu Out of the Customs" won the "Shenlong Cup" Silver Award, ceramic glaze color bowl won the "Shandong National Kiln Chinese Porcelain Series" Excellence Award;In 2017, his work "Leave the Withered Branches and Listen to the Birds" won the gold medal at the "3rd China Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition" in Beijing;In 2018, his work "Five Old Views" and underglaze colorful "Harmony and Wealth" won the 44th Shandong Ceramic Art Design Innovation Competition Award;In 2019, the works "The Belt and Road" and "Chinese Dream" created in Huaguang were presented to foreign friends as national gifts; and his work "Lao Tzu's Teaching Map" In 2020, the works glazed blue and white "Eight Immortals Drunken Picture" and the six-sided thin plate with light "Flowers and Birds" won the "Taishan Peach King" Cup Creation Excellence Award and the Zibo Literary and Art Outstanding Works Award at the 12th China (Shandong) Arts and Crafts Fair, and the glaze blue and white "Mellow Fragrance and Gloomy" won the award in the 2nd "Impression Moutai" China (Zibo) Pottery Creative Design Competition. From 2021 to 2023, he taught ceramic techniques in the Zibo Workers' Federation of Trade Unions and the Zibo Working People's Cultural Palace.
Zhou Jianhua's ceramic works series