Zengping Lai (Sam), born in 1964, started his art education at an early age. He gained his Bachelor of Fine Arts in the College of Art, Qingdao Science And Technology University (QUT) in 1986, and went on to study painting under the famous artist, Hui Wang. Sam is the Director of the Art Society of QUT and currently lives and works in Sydney. Sam’s paintings have been exhibited internationally and have been collected by collectors from Australia, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and China and other countries or regions.