Jie Jack was born in 1965 and raised on the outskirts of the city of Beijing China Having spent his childhood surrounded by scenes of nature filled with mountains and streams Jack began his artistic endeavors at the age of 18 and in 1987 he enrolled at Beijing Normal Union University to study designAfter graduating Jack was inducted into The Beijing Society of Artists and had a collection of his work on permanent display in The Fine Art Museum of Beijing In 2002 Zhou immigrated to Canada where he discovered the unique landscapes of northern Ontario From Muskoka to Algonquin Park like a child chasing after a firefly he chases the constantly changing environment But instead of a jar and a net Jack arms himself with brush and canvas endeavouring to catch the organic shapes around him by encapsulating them on canvas with meticulously almost pointillistic attention covering the canvas with tiny brush strokes to translate how he sees the world