Huaicun Zhang Hon.RBA FRSA, founder of the Pencil Tree CIO, is a British-Chinese poet, painter, and children’s author whose practice spans literature, ink painting, and cross-cultural artistic expression.
Her ink paintings often draw from the quiet lyricism of nature, blending classical brushwork with a distinctly contemporary sensitivity. As a Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Art, her works have been exhibited internationally, from London to Beijing, Tokyo, Paris, and New York.

Michael Harrison PRBA is a British painter known for his small-scale landscape studies painted directly from life. Trained at the Académie Julian in Paris in the 1960s, his work is characterised by a limited palette, sensitive tonal control, and a quiet, poetic sense of place.

A long-standing member of the Royal Society of British Artists, Harrison has exhibited widely at the Mall Galleries and has served as President of the RBA. His paintings are admired for their immediacy, atmosphere and finely balanced brushwork.

Huang Yongyu was a Chinese artist of Tujia ethnicity, celebrated for his versatility across painting, woodcut printmaking, illustration, and poetry. Born in Fenghuang, Hunan, he rose to fame in the 1950s with his powerful woodcut prints, and later became widely known for his witty, spirited ink paintings—especially owls, self-portraits, florals, and lyrical animal subjects.

In his later years, the owl became his iconic motif, embodying wisdom, humor, irony, and self-reflection. Huang often signed these works with the seal “Chi Weng” (The Old Owl), a humorous self-reference. His paintings combine the spontaneity of literati ink art with modern sensitivity and warmth.

Xu Bing is a Chinese printmaker and conceptual artist, known for exploring language, text and meaning in art.

Wu Biduan is a Chinese printmaker from Nanjing (born 1926), of the Hui ethnic group. He began wood-cut printmaking as a teenager, and over a long career has been recognised for his contributions to modern Chinese wood-block print art. His colour prints are especially admired for their sensitive handling of line, tone, and emotional expression.

Chao Mei is a contemporary Chinese printmaker known for his refined use of colour woodcut techniques and poetic depictions of nature.
His works often blend traditional Chinese aesthetics with a modern sensibility, emphasising atmosphere, rhythm, and emotional resonance.
Chao Mei’s prints are recognisable for their layered colour passages, delicate carving, and a distinctive lyrical quality that evokes seasonal change and the quiet vitality of landscapes.

Li Yanpeng is a noted Chinese print-maker and wood-cut artist from Hebei Province, born in 1958, graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1981. He has held major roles in the Hebei art world and in national print art associations.

Zou Changyi was born in December 1944 in Chongqing, China. He studied printmaking (wood-cut) at the Fine Arts Academy in Sichuan. He later became a professor and head of the woodblock print studio at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
His wood-cut prints are widely praised for their strong “wood-cut rhythm” and expressive handling of landscape and nature.

Mo Ce is a Chinese printmaker born in 1928. He has produced a number of notable prints such as Autumn River (《秋江》), Autumn Valley (《秋谷》), Thousand-Mile Sail (《千里扬帆》), and others.