Contact Us
Wuhu Iron Painting Association
Iron Canvas is the international showcase of the Wuhu Iron Painting Association, based in Wuhu, Anhui, China.
The Wuhu Iron Painting Association brings together the most outstanding iron painters in China. Many of their excellent works have been collected in venues such as the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and the Wuhu Municipal Museum.
Explore Our Master Team
Chuansong Tang
Provincial-level inheritor of Anhui’s Intangible Cultural Heritage (Wuhu iron painting forging technique). This craft was included in the first group of national-level intangible cultural heritage items in 2006.
He entered the Wuhu Arts and Crafts Factory as an apprentice at the age of 15 and now serves as Technical Director, leading improvements to iron-painting production processes, such as introducing spot welding to replace traditional charcoal furnaces in certain steps.
Representative works include the iron painting Welcoming Pine created for the Great Hall of the People (in collaboration) and the iron painting Long March Poem selected for display in the Mao Zedong Memorial Hall.
Jiakang Zhang
Named one of the first Anhui Arts and Crafts Masters in 2020 and recognized as a representative inheritor of the national-level intangible cultural heritage project “Wuhu iron painting forging technique.”
His representative works include the openwork iron painting Iron and Danqing and an 11-metre-long iron painting scroll Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, which was donated to the Wuhu Museum in 2023.
He Ye
An Anhui Arts and Crafts Master known for his iron painting creations, his works have been presented as national gifts to the International Olympic Committee. He is committed to innovating within the tradition of Wuhu iron painting.
He pioneered coloured iron painting with the work 一路连科 (“Continuous Success”), using aerodynamic studies of bird feather structure to capture the precise dynamics of wings in motion.
He also developed an iron painting series of the Asian Games mascot “Panpan”, introducing the panda cartoon image into the medium of iron painting.