Painter based at Wimbledon Art Studios, London.
My practice is rooted in a lifelong relationship with art. I first picked up a brush at the age of three, when I was enrolled in an art school in Shanghai as a way to channel my childhood fears into something transformative. What began as a remedy became a vocation.
Working primarily in acrylics, my paintings explore softness a in life and London through light, colour, and atmosphere.
I believe in an increasingly accelerated, algorithmically mediated world, my work offers a counterpoint. It is an invitation to pause, to notice the shifting quality of light on water, the colour hues, the way a scene breathes when we are truly still enough to see it.
Li Huajing
An Art Heritage
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
My father was a marine engineer by profession, but his passion was black and white photography. He turned his Shanghai university dorm room into a makeshift darkroom, developing his own prints between engineering lectures.
And cycled through China before its rise as a global superpower, documenting a nation in transformation.
His muse was my mother. There are a stack of photos taken during their courting days.
Colour as a Language
Colour is more than aesthetics. Research consistently shows that colours can shape our mood, nervous system and sense of self in ways we rarely pause to notice.
This understanding is fundamental to my practice. The colours I hand mix are considered and curated to quiet the mind and create the conditions for rest and reflection.
In choosing such colours, I am cultivating an environment for the home, the office place, the brand where colour softly shapes how we feel.
Exhibitions
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Medina Roma, Rome Italy, 15th - 21st May 2026
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Wimbledon Art Fair November 2026
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Milan Design Week, Artemida Gallery 2027
The Story Behind Anping Edits
Anping is my rescue dog and the name behind everything I do.
She came into my life during the pandemic, in Shanghai, at a time when I had lost both my grandmothers within ten days of each other. I was grieving, and quietly withdrawing from the world. She was timid, found in a compound, waiting to be chosen. Her name, given by the woman who rescued her, means safe and sound — 平安, píng'ān, reversed. In a way, we found each other at exactly the right moment.
She edited my life. Filled it with people, with walks, with belonging. She made Shanghai feel like home.
I named my art business after her because that is what I hope my work does for you offers a quiet place to land. A moment of softness in an otherwise busy world.