Jinhua Lu (1956) was born in Zibo, Shandong Province, China. He devoted most of his life to pottery art and founded Zibo Ceramic Art school, Zibo brick carving art research institute as well as Zibo seven-color pottery workshop. 

                                                                               

Since 2014, the Li Longtu Academician's workstation has been approved by the state to engage in the research of obsidian celestial china and photonic crystal new materials. It has obtained 6 national invention patents and 5 copyright registration certificates from the State Intellectual Property Office. His works have been collected by the German National Museum, Taiwan National Palace Museum, China Ceramics Museum, and dozens of other cultural and cultural institutions, and he has designed and produced pottery and brick murals for many memorial halls and museums. 

Besides art, he also loves literature and poetry and he has published "Selected Chinese Ancient Sports poetry" book, "Sports Praise - Chinese Sports Culture of Five Thousand Years" book, and other works.  The two books were presented to Samaranch and Olympic officials around the world as gift books. His scientific and technological works include "On the Change of Ceramic Kiln", and his historical works include "Cradle of Qilu Ancient Civilization" and "Qilu Ancient Land is the Cradle of Chinese Ceramics". 

In 1992, he returned to his hometown to inherit the ancestral industry of the Lu kiln as the sixth-generation inheritor. He founded the Linzi Institute of Black Pottery, which carried out the research and production of black pottery and colored pottery. Now, his works are exported to many countries. 

The color-changing ceramics are called Yohen Tenmoku in academia and are scientifically explained as photonic crystals. This new type of ceramic art is developed successfully by artist Jinhua Lu after nearly ten years of hard work.  

The color change depending on the light and the angle of illumination. If we view it under natural light, the silver-white light spots will appear on the glazed surface of the pitch-black pottery. Under the studio light, it became purple-red light spots. In the evening, when shooting with the flashlights of two mobile phones, it has pink, red, and blue colors. It emits red light at 396 nanometers and blue light at 550 nanometers showed by the luminescence spectrum test by Tsinghua University. Yellow light and green light can be seen in the transition section. This amazing new ceramic variety has written a brand-new chapter for Chinese ceramics. 

 

Colorful Ceramic Famble Plate with Fish Image

You can visit his Peppaca Professional Store here Zibo seven color pottery workshop features his intricate, one-of-a-kind ceramic arts.