Fishermen pick up brushes to show coastal life

Zhoushan, a city of many islands in East China's Zhejiang province, is well-known as a tourist destination and for its rich fishery resources. But not many people know that it is also home to amateur artists who live off both fishing and painting.

For this group, painting is not a profession like fishing but a natural instinct which meets an emotional need.

Twenty-eight years after their work was first shown at the National Art Museum of China, Zhoushan's fishmen are again displaying their creativity with an exhibition of 80 paintings at the same venue.