Canvas print
Ink on cotton canvas, stretched and ready to hang. Three sizes.
From $79
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Online exhibition
Tiger in the Hidden Mountain
Hu Jin brings ink, martial discipline, and meditative stillness into one watchful image of the tiger.
Power begins before movement.
The tiger does not need to announce its strength. It listens, gathers breath, and waits until action becomes necessary.
Hu Jin brings the same discipline to ink. Painting, calligraphy, martial practice, and meditation meet in the pressure of a line and the silence around it.
The opening image is a curatorial atmosphere visual. Original artwork photography remains clearly reserved throughout the exhibition.
A living cycle of stillness, wind, and mountain.
Six positions await the final studio catalogue. Each frame is designed for an original work, with no invented title or provenance.
Prints and gifts
Take the tiger home.
Museum-quality reproductions and gifts made under licence from Hu Jin's original paintings. Each piece is produced to order and shipped from the studio nearest to you.
Silk scarf
Digitally printed silk with hand-finished edges. Light, packable, gift-ready.
From $45
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An everyday tote carrying the tiger motif.
From $32
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Artist portrait reserved
A painter shaped by brush, body, and breath.
Hu Jin uses the courtesy name Mingjin and the art names Hubo and Mianshi Shanjun. His studios are Cangshan Hall and Fenglin Hall.
Hu Jin is a Chinese ink painter and calligrapher. His practice includes Sanda, Yiquan, Taijiquan, Xiong-style Great Yijin Jing, Chan meditation, and seated stillness. He is an inheritor of the He-family Taijiquan lineage associated with Wudang Mountain.
Born in 1974 in Liuhe, Jilin, he began drawing as a child and was known locally for painting tigers by the age of seven. He graduated from the China Academy of Art in 1999 in figure painting, then completed a master's degree in flower-and-bird painting there in 2011.
Appointments and distinctions
Faculty member, Advanced Studies Department, China Academy of Art
National First-Class Artist
Research Fellow, Zhejiang Institute for the Revival of Classical Chinese Studies
President, Zhejiang Tiger Painting Art Research Institute
Vice President, Zhejiang Qianjiang Calligraphy Research Association
Member, Chinese Martial Artists Association
Ink begins in the body.
Ink
Pressure, speed, moisture, and pause make intention visible.
Body
The line begins in stance, balance, breath, and directed force.
Breath
Stillness clears the field so movement can arrive at the right moment.