Two lifelong passions, brought into one body of work
Art began for me as an instinct rooted in childhood. Later, it became a meeting point between two lasting loves.
I studied art from an early age, allowing an instinct for form, beauty and making to become part of how I see the world. After becoming a mother, I found clay. Its warmth and resistance drew me fully into the quiet intensity of ceramic making, and led to the founding of Kuiyao. The sunflower turns toward light; the kiln transforms through fire. Together, they express my starting point: an art practice grounded in warmth, attention and change.
Before working in ceramics, I was a professional underwater photographer. In 2015, I founded Beijing Jingqian Private Diving Center and spent years descending into the blue, living alongside the sea and looking closely at its many forms of life. Those dives revealed the ocean’s clarity and scale, while also making visible the subtle damage unfolding within its ecosystems. The experience left me with a lasting respect for the sea and a clear sense of why marine protection and climate awareness matter.
My work moves between that deep-sea experience and the heat of the kiln. I work across the boundaries of vessel, sculpture and image, bringing the movement of fish, the force of waves and the textures of blue water into clay. The Ocean Series grows from this cross-disciplinary position: an evolving body of ceramic works with marine ecology at its core.
I hope the physical warmth of handmade ceramics can make the ocean feel close again — not as an image to be consumed, but as a living system we are part of. Each object is an invitation to look more carefully, and to imagine a more attentive relationship between human life and the sea.