CHINESE PAINTING - FLOWER

Cao Xiaoming

Born in Shanghai, Cao Xiaoming graduated from the Shanghai School of Arts and Crafts in 1979, where she studied under Miao Pengfei and Yu Youhan. Immersed in art from an early age by his father, the painter Cao Yongping, she later became a student of Sun Wuyin. She studied landscape painting, drawing, and bird-and-flower painting with teachers including Fan Boyan, Cao Jianlou and Ni Jingmei. In 1980 she became a personal disciple of Cheng Shifa. In 1988 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Leuven, Belgium.