Faithful to that country’s quintessentially classical artistic medium, Chinese painting, the Beijing-born-and-based Zhu is principally a painter.
In recent years, however, the artist has broadened his formal reach to include print-making as well as figurative sculpture.
His soldiering days ended when he was admitted to the People's Liberation Army Art Academy, finishing in 1989.
Despite his educational background and association with the artistic values of state sanctioned art, Zhu has an incredible knowledge of Chinese tradition and spends enormous effort in perfecting his ink washes (also called Chinese painting), a technique popularized by Taoist artists in fourth and fifth centuries.
His works are widely collected in Europe, the United States, Asia and often feature in international auctions.