All in the family

Having established her own style, water-and-ink artist Peng Wei teams up with her artist father for their first joint show, Deng Zhangyu reports.

For many years, seeking to avoid comparison, artist Peng Wei has been unwilling to hold a show jointly with her father, Peng Xiancheng, who gained fame for traditional Chinese water-and-ink paintings decades ago. Now the daughter is finally stepping forward to present her works and her father's together for the first time, confident she has developed her own artistic style.

Peng Wei, 41, and her father, 74, both do water-and-ink paintings. However, the father focuses on traditional Chinese paintings while the daughter paints on shoes, plastic bodies and clothes, a kind of installation art.