Xia is from Jiangxi province. He studied at the Guangzhou South China Teaching University. He had a special interest in oil painting and went on to study art at the Guangzhou Art Institute’s Senior Research Course on Oil Painting.

     After graduation in 2001, Xia started his career as an artist and focus on oil painting. In the past 14 years, from 2001 to 2015, he had participated in 15 exhibitions and art competitions with honors. More recently in 2014, Xia’s works of art were being awarded in four exhibitions and widely publicized in the media.

     “Xia has great oil painting skill, there is no dispute. But the most inviting part is his sense of time. The changing scene of day and night, the come and go of the seasons are all vividly spell out by the artist’s disposal of the light of the day and the vegetation in the vicinity. Xia’s painting is simple, plain and sometime naïve, but the atmosphere it arouses is an eternal endurance,” said art critics.