周利芳，女，山西大同人，大学本科学历。作为一名资深媒体人，多年来，周利芳通过敏锐的观察及手中的笔写出一篇篇惩恶扬善、歌讼身边的好人好事、助推社会发展前进的优秀新闻作品，摘得省、市乃至国家级多项荣誉，是一位令人尊敬的记者。现如今，她不忘初心，重燃少时心中的梦想——致力要成为一名杰出的画家，为中华民族的传统文化做出自己不懈的努力。她自幼酷爱绘画，勤于实践，擅长写意花鸟画。通过对大千世界景物的细心观察，并养成不同角度、视觉发现和创作美好事物的习惯，边走边看，边思考边学习，绘制的作品中注重季节对景物的影响，以写实与夸张巧妙结合、虚中见实的手法来表达内涵，注重色彩搭配来烘托作品的神韵，从而达到画面的和谐、灵动之美。如今，她通过自身的不断努力学习，立志将培养和提升大众艺术素养作为她艺术生涯的毕生追求。上图为周利芳创作的画作。周利芳说在她的艺术创作里，大多源于对生活的热爱和对生命的赞美之情。她多年来一直潜心研究齐白石、吴昌硕等众多名家作品，力求在自己的作品注入新鲜的血液，让身边美好的事物与人们日益提升的生活水平相结合，其画风清雅秀逸，雅俗共赏，画作被省内外不少书画爱好者收藏，部分画作被省文联、省委宣传部等部门收藏，一些作品还被波兰、澳大利亚、非洲等国际友人收藏。她创作的的牡丹图被我国当代著名书法家柳国庆（唐代著名书法家柳公权后裔）称为“构图严谨、色彩丰富，艳而不俗”，并为其题字“国色天香”。获得的荣誉和称号有：其绘画作品在由中国硬笔书法协会对外交流委员会、中国诗书画家网、《羲之书画报•诗书画家》共同主办的第七届“炎黄杯”当代诗书画印艺术大赛中荣获铜奖；其作品在2017年由开封苏富比文化艺术发展中心联合澳大利亚书法家协会举办的中澳双城书画展中成功入围并荣获优秀奖；其代表作品被收录在《一带一路书画名家》精品收藏版扑克牌中，现为苏富比文化艺术发展中心艺术总监。

Zhou Lifang, female, Shanxi great fellow, Bachelor degree. As a senior media people, over the years, Zhou Lifang through observation and hand sharp pen to write an article, good and evil side sings good, boost the advancement of social development outstanding news work, won the provincial, city and national honors, is a respected journalist. Now, she does not forget the initial heart, rekindle the dream of the heart - to become an outstanding painter, for the Chinese nation's traditional culture to make unremitting efforts. She loved painting at her childhood. She was diligent in practice and was good at freehand flower and bird painting. Through careful observation of the scene of the universe of 1,000,000,000 universes and habit, different angles, visual discovery and creation of beautiful things, walking to see, while thinking and learning, pay attention to the seasonal effect on the scene rendering works, to express the meaning of the combination of realism and exaggerated, false in real practices, pay attention to the color collocation to foil the charm works, so as to achieve the harmony of picture, beauty. Now, through her own continuous efforts to study, determined to cultivate and enhance the quality of public art as her lifelong pursuit of art career. The picture above is a painting by Zhou Lifang. Zhou Lifang said that in her artistic creation, mostly from the love of life and praise of life. She has been for many years of painstaking research, Qi Baishi Wu Changshuo and many other famous works, to inject fresh blood in his works, let things with people around good rising living standards combined with its elegant style hideitsu, tastes, paintings by inside and outside the province are no less collectors, some paintings were of Literary Federation, provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department and other departments, some of his works have been in Poland, Australia, Africa and other international friends collection. She created the peony map is a famous contemporary Chinese calligrapher Liu Guoqing (a famous calligrapher Liu descendants of the Tang Dynasty) called "the precise composition, rich colors, colorful and good", and the "national beauty and heavenly fragrance". Honor and Title: the paintings by Chinese Calligraphy Association Foreign Exchange Committee, Chinese poetry network, "pictorial book painter Xi - poetry painter" jointly hosted the seventh session of the Chinese Cup "of contemporary poetry and print art contest won a bronze medal; his works held in 2017 by opening Sotheby's culture and art development center joint Australian Calligraphers Association Australia Shuangcheng painting and calligraphy exhibition successfully nominated and won the award of excellence; its representative works are included in the" fine Belt and Road Initiative "painting and calligraphy collection card, at Sotheby's culture and art development center director.