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Lorlandchain was born December 11, 1980 in the industrial city of Pan Zhihua, China. He currently lives in the circumjacent city of Cheng Du.. His full name is Chen Wei. He says, “You can call me Wei Chen (the) English way. Wei … means ‘Only One And The Best One ‘ in Chinese .I am the only son in my family so I get this name from my parents.”

Lorlandchain is a teacher at the Fine Art Academy at the Sichuan Music Institute. He says he used to get into fights and other trouble on a daily basis as a child and so his mother had him attend a special children skills training school to help him become more discipline. That’s where he had his earliest experiences in art. “In this center, children could learn to draw, to dance, to sing, to play martial art and many other skills …not for job, only just for interest.”

Later, he studied fine art in one of the eight best art schools in China, the Sichuan Fine Art Institute. He majored in animation and Visual Arts. During those years he showed great interest in fantasy art.

“By walking down the street, looking around at the world I lived in, reading books about human nature and absorbing great human stories… I attempted to place a bit of the real world around (me) into my paintings.” As a student, his works were exhibited in the ChongQing Fine Art Exhibition and he graduated summa cum laude from the Art Institute.

“As a Chinese, I feel a litte ashamed about the short (amount) of traditional education (that I had). From childhood we get a western culture education …art, we are taught how to draw sketches, follow the light, how to color the pictures in western way ...so, today (if you ask me)…to draw an oriental piece, I can only tell you, I and many other Chinese artist like (myself) are trying …our best to (find) a brand-new way for expressing the oriental spirit.”

His DA gallery consists of a variation of images that illustrates stories or ideas that come directly from Lorlandchain's own imagination. He works mostly in traditional painting or digital painting or mix media.