San Mao is a native of Nanjing, China (Jiangsu Province) where she graduated in 1986 from Nanjing Normal University with a degree in Bachelor of Chinese (B.A.).
Look back on her life and recall a life full of struggle. Born into a military official family, she had to face a lot of difficulties to find her own way. After all these years as a social outcast, she now found a way to cure herself and let others have a glimpse into what she went through in her early days. San Mao started painting only five years ago in 2013. In her pictures she incorporates her own living experiences; she lets her anxieties and hopes become visible on paper or canvas. Her pictures are full of emotions; colorful and unsettling, intermingled figures trying to free themselves. Since she never studied painting techniques it is what she calls “Soul Painting”.