Paint to Celebrate!

• Traveling Artist • Painter • Illustrator • Educator

• Event & Exhibition Organizer • Homeschooling Mother

• Cross-cultural & Interdisciplinary Program Curator • Art Ministry Leader

陆帆 Fan Lu was born in 1990 in Shanghai, China, and grew up there. In Chinese, "帆" (fān) means "sail" and symbolizes a journey of setting sail and smooth sailing. Responding to God's calling throughout the journeys at present, Fan bravely embraces an arts missionary lifestyle, guided by a clear vision from above. She has been preparing and equipping to relocate wherever God leads her to go, while also considering the family as a united whole. For nearly ten years, Fan has been living in various places in California, including San Francisco, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Piedmont Pines in the Oakland hills, and El Cerrito. Currently, Fan lives with her husband and their son in Alameda, a cozy, walkable, and family-friendly island city in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Over the years, Fan's academic experience has taken her through China, Australia, the UK, Italy, and the United States. In 2013, Fan graduated from Shanghai Normal University with a BA in Advertising Science (Journalism and Mass Communication Studies). Upon graduation, she was awarded the Shanghai Outstanding Graduate, a prestigious municipal honour that recognizes academic excellence, leadership, and impactful community service contributions. In 2014, Fan achieved an MSc in Management and Organisational Innovation with Merit from Queen Mary University of London. In 2019, Fan gained an MA in Fine Art (with an emphasis in Drawing and Painting) at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Since 2016, Fan's work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in Florence and several U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Alameda. Her artistic practice explores a diverse range of themes such as nature, travel memories, music, faith, education, literature, and daily life, using a wide range of traditional and digital mixed media. Fan's creative voice and expression are not from nowhere, but rather deeply emerging from the personal stories and the complex early-life experiences, including the warmth of childhood memories from family and schools, as well as the adversities she faced and overcame growing up in the formative years, from infancy into her teenage years, which shaped her. However, the awakening time gradually also heals the heart and soul. 

Before fully dedicating herself to the arts, Fan worked in public education in museums, private and public schools, and international business schools, which cultivated her interdisciplinary approach in cross-cultural settings. In 2018, while Fan was still in her second master's degree program, after she gave birth to her son, together with her husband, they began to homeschool and roadschool their son, exploring and developing in their family-owned style. Starting in 2020, Fan started designing and teaching bilingual art courses for children and adults, both online and in person, and curates community events that integrate spiritual faith and cross-cultural consideration. For her, teaching marks the beginning of a new, deeper learning experience as an aspiring educator with a growth mindset. Since 2022, Fan has been co-leading their family Music Art Ministry, which serves the Spiritual communities locally and globally, growing steadily.

Even Fan's artwork conveys a warm and uplifting message, but it was the result of internalization from pain and restoration, and transformed into an outcome as a light. Fan first came to know Christian Faith at age 12 in 2002 while attending boarding school. However, it was not until 2015—the year she was baptized in Shanghai—that her true faithful journey of the inner healing through nature and art began. One thing Fan is most grateful for is that she has walked a long and arduous journey to live an ordinary life. Now, the PRESENT as a gift, connecting her past and future! Her continuous efforts and devotion reflect gratitude, resilience, caring, healing, and quiet strength, naturally being in the role of bridging cultures, expressing faith, and inspiring joy. Praise the LORD!

Fan's Art Philosophy

Art to inspire. Art for healing.

Paint to Celebrate!

Fan's Teaching Philosophy

Sow good seeds to the souls.

Music Art Ministry & Education

Visit Fan's family website: www.FGMusicArt.com