Mr. Zhao Haipeng was born in Hebei Province in January,1945, and graduated from Tianjin Fine Arts College in 1969. He is now the director of the Tianjin Artist Association of Fine Art, and Chairman of the Tanggu Research Society. Of woodcut.

He won the golden medal of Japanese International woodcut institute in 1992 and the golden medal of Japanese Siziki.. ¡®An Old Hut¡¯ won the honorary gold medal of Painting Competition between the Mainland & Taiwan in 1996.

Zhao haipeng¡¯s Exhibition of Chinese woodcut prints was held at South Korea in 1991, In the same year Tanggu¡¯s woodcut Exhibition was held at Tibashi city in Japan.

He visited and held his personal exhibition of woodblock water prints in 1996.

Mr. Zhao haipeng¡¯s outstanding achievements upon woodcut have a very close link with his whole-heart devotion to the research and development of Chinese tradition Woodblock water prints in the past twenty years. During the studies and research work, he has overcome many difficulties with perseverance, solving the problem of making special paper for woodblock water prints as well as making an important break-through on the water print technique of rice paper under the dry climate of the north. He has made great contribution to the improvement and new creation of tradition woodblock prints, His skill with a unique style has won him public admiration from the woodcut circles at China and abroad.