Pang Jiun was born in 1936 into a prominent artistic family that had already produced three generations of renowned painters, including his father, Pang Xunqin, who belonged to the first wave of Chinese artists studying in France, and his mother, Qiu Ti, who studied painting in Japan. Born and bred as an artist, Pang remained active and immersed in art throughout his entire life. His parents had undergone the baptism of Western oil painting, and been great promoters of modern art in China. Absorbing both the experience and knowledge of his parents, while at the same time being imbued in Oriental art and culture, Pang Jiun soon began to develop his own individual style of painting. Pang Jiun relates the classical to the modern, and imbibes their peculiarities to his advantage; in the process, he also discovers the thread running through oil painting and Chinese painting, particularly the Xieyi ink painting. Both the modern Western oil painting and the Chinese ink painting leads to his conclusion that a highlight of Xieyi is one of the most important ways to regenerate Chinese oil painting.

Regardless of the topics on still life paintings or Jiangnan landscape, Pang Jiun is able to balance the colors as he wishes. As seen in “Watery Wonder - Li River”, with flourishing pink peach blossoms situated among the Li river landscape, with a boatman tiding over the misty paradise, leaving a trace of white water mark, as if they were the pleasant memories leaving behind. Pang Jiun’s meticulous depiction of tones of grey is evidently shown here, with leaving traces of delicate pinkish white peach blossom in the foreground. Together with the mirror image of the mountain tops embodied the poeticism quality as seen in Pang Jiun’s work.