Born in 1962, Mr. Ding Minghong is a first-class master of Beijing Arts & Crafts and a national first-class senior technician. He graduated from the Beijing University of Technology School of Design & Art and the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts.

He is also a director of China Arts and Crafts Association as well as Beijing Art Splendor Culture Co. LTD. In 1978, he entered Beijing Enamel Factory, the largest specialized cloisonne factory in China, and began to study, practice, and design cloisonne technology. In 2003, he established his own studio- Beijing Art Splendor Culture Co. LTD.

 

The artwork has the shape of a big full apple. The color is mainly green, highlighting the characteristics of the midsummer season. Using loofah fruits, leaves, rattan branches, calabash, and kingfisher as materials, the designer arranges these seasonal elements repeatedly and covers the main body of the device to express the season of the work.

Summer is the most difficult and busy time for those who are far away from their homeland. The loofah represents “miss”; the Calabash represents “blessing and happiness”; the kingfisher represents “leisure and freedom.” Through anthropomorphic writing, the work use plants and kingfishers to express the feeling of longing for their hometown, relatives, and friends.

The work breaks the traditional patterns and color decoration forms of cloisonne, boldly uses color design, takes the midsummer season as the background and material, melts the yearning feelings and love for life in the lush tones of midsummer, and highlights the characteristics of the times of a harmonious society.

"Summer Dream" won the gold award in the Baihua Cup and the gold award in the Golden Phoenix Innovative Design Competition. It also won the gold medal in the Gongmei Cup at the Beijing Cultural Fair and the silver award in the Irene Cup at the 9th World Handicraft Congress.

 

His works have won gold and silver awards in the National Fine Arts and Crafts Master competition many times. The works are mainly novel and unique, and the style is lively, elegant, and fashionable. Mr. Ding successively developed and designed the unique cloisonne blue series, cloisonne pastel series, Ming and Qing Dynasties restoration series, fashion series, etc. His art integrates the art form of cloisonne with blue and white porcelain.

He has participated in the research and development of a number of Cloisonne national gifts, and the Cloisonne "Jianye Bottle" and "Silk Road Golden Bridge" were presented to foreign heads of state as national gifts.

You can visit Minghong’s Peppaca Professional Store Artsplendorstudio to discover and learn more about his exquisite cloisonne art.