Yuan Jinming
The first maker series within the porcelain category: a Jingdezhen painter who has worked almost exclusively on snow landscapes for more than twenty years.
Porcelain · first maker series
One subject, twenty years
XING is the shop; Yuan Jinming Snow-Landscape Porcelain is its first maker series. The other categories have no series yet.
Born in Jingdezhen in 1985, with family roots in Poyang, Jiangxi, Yuan Jinming came to Jingdezhen to study porcelain painting in 2002 and later graduated from Jingdezhen Ceramic Academy. He trained under Yan Yangping, a representative inheritor of the province's traditional famille-rose technique.
After years of painting the standard subjects - landscapes, flowers and birds - he settled on snow. It is the hardest negative space in Chinese painting: the structure of mountains and trees must hold before any snow can fall. Famille-rose, with its powdered glass white, can carry that structure layer by layer.
In 2004 he founded the Yuan Jinming Ceramic Art Museum in Jingdezhen.
Five generations of one brush line
He Xuren → Xiong Xiaofeng → Xiong Guorui → Yan Yangping → Yuan Jinming. The line begins with the snow-scene painting of the "Eight Friends of Zhushan" and reaches this collection through Yan Yangping, whose technique is summarised as borrowing the ground for snow, the clouds for rain and the void for mist.
Diagrams supplied by the artist's existing materials; the single character in the seal reads "snow".
Documented credentials
Only items with certificate photographs are shown. Award records without scans are held back pending documentation.
Two works are held in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, accession numbers SC10000721 and SC10000715.
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