Mr. Zhuang has exhausted the artistic expression of medium of watercolor. He improvises as he goes, creating all sorts of forms and ideals in the process. In the search of forms, interplay of colors and pursuit of atmosphere, he is looking for the traces of passing time. His work goes beyond the painting of landscape. Instead, he uses “imagery” in his watercolor language to express the great variety of life, expanding the notion and connotation of watercolor art. In exploring the virtual and real, he has created a unique combination of Chinese style and watercolor, a classical western form. Mr. Zhuang’s exploration coincides with the transition from traditional to modern expression of contemporary Chinese art evolution.

Mr.Zhuang is a renowned artist. He has created outstanding works with the medium of watercolor, especially the depiction of people and landscapes of Jiang Nan water village with a unique flavor of old Republican era China. His works are well worthy of being exhibited and collected by the National Art Gallery.

Mr.Zhuang’s work is tranquil and reserved. Beauty of Truth and Goodness permeate through every inch of the paintings. Every character in the painting carries a certain contemplative pious quality, therefore transmitting the beauty of innocence and truthfulness. This beauty travels directly to the very heart and soul of the viewer. He uses metaphysical expressions in the landscape and figure shapes, color shades as well as space usage, resulting in the paradoxical interweaving of philosophy and reality. Zhuang’s artistic style is original and sincere, reflecting the noble characteristics of the artist.

In Zhuang’s paintings, we could see the dramatic projective light typical of Caravaggio’s works. From this central visual focal point, all life’s drama unfolds. His skillful use of light created a magnificent play or color, shades and tones. Zhuang is a very important artist in the transitional period into modernity. He transcended the narrow-mindedness of conventional landscape and narrative watercolor paintings and introduced metaphoric expression, turning day-to-day life into a transcendental experience.

There is no doubt that the Jiang Nan Series is the most outstanding part of Zhuang’s works. He uses the texture effects unique to watercolor, blurring the boundaries of images. The wetness permeates the paintings, making everything fuzzy and dreamlike, a perfect way of delivering the passing of times and spirits of Jiang Nan. The form and content harmoniously blended together, adding to the splendidness and charms of his artistic creation.

Mr. Zhuang's paintings emit an elegant charm of the Republican era. His paintings render moods of boudoir blues, farewell sorrow, old age loneliness and everlasting homesickness, like mourning a golden age that vanished too soon. Nostalgia, but not vague; Melancholy, but not sad. The long-deposited memories of the Jiang Nan awake everlasting ripples in the heart of a nostalgia literati. The image is Abing’s cold moon, Zhu Ziqing’s shadow lamp, Dai Wangshu's oil paper umbrella and Zhou Zuoren's dark-roofed boat... Mr. Zhuang's paintings, full of romantic charm, are filled with splendidness of western expressions and poetic beauty of the orient, like the lingering mood of the crescent moon.

In the landscape paintings of his hometown, there are so many heart aching memories, so much melancholy and loneliness in the memories, so much everlasting nostalgia in the loneliness, and so many precious memories in the nostalgia.