The only father and son in our city are professionals who are masters of arts and crafts: Zhou Cunyu, master of arts and crafts in Jiangsu Province; Zhou Bo, master of arts and crafts in Lianyungang City. Zhou Cunyu’s fathers were craftsmen for four or five generations. Zhou Cunyu was influenced by his father’s generation to embark on the artistic road of forging bronze sculpture, and his son Zhou Bo also embarked on the artistic road of hand sculpture under the influence of his father. Both father and son are good at hand sculptures, especially good at forging copper, and also making clay sculptures, wood carvings and stone carvings. The works exhibited this time are all the fine works created by Zhou Cunyu and his son in recent years, involving painting and calligraphy, wrought copper, cast copper, ceramics, wood carving, clay sculpture and many other art types.

  His father Zhou Cunyu is over half a hundred years old, and his life experience has made his works increasingly vigorous. His calligraphy and painting have not only the style of Teacher Han Meilin, but also his personal experience and feelings. Based on his accumulated experience in the past, his copper forging skills have continuously explored new techniques and developed more than 70 new tools that can be made in 6 colors of gold, silver, copper, green, blue and black. These innovative measures have made the ancient forging copper craft full of vitality, and has formed its own unique forging style and effect.



  As a growing craftsman of the "post-80s", his son Zhou Bo is no less powerful than his parents. From his works, we can see that there is not only a childlike innocence, but also a modern way of showing traditional themes. Depth of the work. Forging copper is a door craft, and the process is complicated. It has to go through more than a dozen processes such as forging, quenching, chiseling, forging, etc. There are dozens or even hundreds of light chisel, and soft rubber and hard rubber are boiled according to needs. In order to achieve the desired line and texture effect. For the young Zhou Bo, these are all using his own hands to feel the fragrance of the earth and the luster of metallic copper, to depict his own world of wrought copper art.