Zhao Chuang is a 43-year-old science artist working in Beijing. The illustrator’s job bridges science and art by painting and sculpting ancient extinct species based on information collected from fossils. Zhao reproduces each element described in paleontological papers in an artistic way, and the blanks in scientific research are filled by his logic and imagination.
Zhao is a dream collaborator for many paleontologists, museums and publishing houses. His painting of a prehistoric flying mammal became the cover of prominent British scientific journal in 2006, a highlight in his career as a science artist. Ten years later, he worked with the American Museum of Natural History on its exhibition focusing
