Bottling up their talent

The training paved the way for her study of porcelain art, with a focus on paining, at Jingdezhen Ceramic University in Jiangxi province.

After grasping essential sketching and watercolor skills, Li Shaoyue began to concentrate her mind on Chinese painting.

"My ultimate goal back then was to contribute to the development of ceramics," she says.

However, images of her father holding her hand doing the interior painting frequently emerged in her mind after her graduation in 2015, especially after her father was yearning for her to return home and carry on the family tradition.

Moreover, Wang Xiaocheng, curator of the Shandong-styled interior painting museum, also hoped she could come back and contribute to the development of the art.

Li Shaoyue then followed her gut feelings and tried her hand at the local art, initially at Wang's museum.

Wang told her that he was looking forward to her giving expressions to more modern subjects in interior painting while carrying forward the traditional themes.