Andy Shutse Lou was born and raised in China and received a Master Degree of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas in 1988. His works have been exhibited and collected internationally. He has taught drawing, watercolour painting and Chinese Brush Painting for many years in Texas and California, as well as the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria in British Columbia. He has been teaching at the Summer School of the Visual Arts at Red Deer College in Alberta since 2001. He is also the co-author of three books on brush painting.