Born in the US, Karen Smith married a descendant of Ouyang’s family in 1986 in San Francisco. Since then, she had developed a strong feelings of Zhongshan, and was deeply attracted by the hundred years of history of Ouyang Qingyu’s family.

Since 1997 he began to create murals. The “city painter” has completed more than 7,000 square meters of works across Zhongshan. He has decorated the city with his painting brush and witnessed the process of reform and opening-up in Zhongshan.