Jun Kang Ye was born on December 13, 1939, in Shanghai, China, in a family of 13 children, and from the very beginning, he had a fascination for any art form. Since 1958, he has had many shows of his own work in Joint exhibitions. He graduated from Shanghai University of Fine Arts, with a major in Chinese Brush Painting in 1965.

He worked as a professional artist in a government-operated Art Publishing House in Shanghai for 17 years. His works at the Art Publishing House have been reproduced by the Chinese authorities for popular enjoyment & public display of their grandeur. He is also a member of the Chinese Artist Association of Shanghai.

In his youth, he studied the basic principles of Chinese writings and paintings. His artworks combine characteristics of traditional Chinese style influenced by his liking for Western art. He has an amazing ability to express his work both in a realistic manner as well as in a simplistic abstract style.

His figure paintings and portraits are lively and vivid. His landscape paintings are a fusion of Modern Realism with classical Chinese Brush techniques. He has expertise in using the “splash-ink” technique to create paintings of birds, flowers, and animals. This is a technique of using very wet ink to achieve a realistic effect.

His favorite subjects are large birds such as the Eagle, Crane, Mandarin Duck, and the Cormorant. Apart from birds, he loves to capture landscapes as he appreciates the beauty of the grand scale of nature.

While Jun Kang devoted his major effort to painting, he also deeply studied related techniques of the traditional Chinese art of seal carving from the Han Dynasty to the modern era. He studied the evolution & transformation of Chinese “Kanji” characters over a period of time.

In his free time, he loves to teach and demonstrate his work of art through classical and contemporary Chinese brush paintings. He has been living in the US with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles, CA since 1982.