Lu Tin was born in 1930 in Monywa in northwestern Burma, son of a mason, and entered a monastery for his education.
[1] In the period immediately after World War II he lived by various jobs including knitting and weaving, masonry and tailoring.
In 1950, a monk helped him to start studying under Aung Chit, an artist who painted cover designs for the Ludu Journal in Mandalay.
[3] According to Ant Maung, "throughout his entire life as an artist, Lu Tin has managed like no other to reflect the beauties of the various periods and times of the day – dawn, sunrise, daybreak, daytime, dusk, nightfall, twilight.
When I try to picture the best of his works, his watercolours of Myanmar’s coastal regions, the jade mines in Kachin State, and the western stretches of the Ayeyawady River, all stand out in my mind".