Qi Mu（慕齐）

He Yonghui (何永辉), who goes by the artist name Qi Mu (慕齐), was born in 1969 in Rucheng County of Hunan Provice. He has intensely loved painting since childhood. Mr. Yu Linhu, the famous artist of Shanghai, was his first teacher, then Yonghui successively studied calligraphy and fine arts at Hunan University of Arts and Science and the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts in Central China. In the Central Academy of Fine Arts, he benefited most from Professor Du Juemin, Professor Wang Shujie, and doctoral supervisor Mr Jia Youfu. Moreover, he was also instructed by Li Baolin, Li Yan, Zhang Shoutao, Shen Ronghua and other famous masters. His works have been exhibited many times in provincial or national exhibitions and won him many awards. He is now a researcher at the Chinese Literati Painting Academy; a researcher at the China Academy of Ink Painting; a painter at the Huxiang Painting and Calligraphy Academy; the founder of the Hangzhou Lingshan Painting and Calligraphy Garden, the art consultant of Hangzhou Jushuntang Culture Technology Development Company, and the art consultant of Summit Art (尖峰艺术顾问) .

Western art is science (1+1=2). Oriental art is philosophy (1+1=unknown).

In He Yonghui’s depiction, Taihang Mountain is towering aloft this moment and being cloaked by clouds and mists the next, sometimes seems clear and moonlit, sometimes is ethereal and distant. He summoned the stretching and rolling natural landscape of the Taihang Mountain into his brushwork, from which emerges the unique cultural context and profound Spiritual connotation.