Lai Chiman born in Hong Kong in 1949. After graduating from the Sculpture Department of the National Academy of Art in Taiwan in 1973, he went to the Carrara quarry, the world-famous sculpture center in Italy, to work with internationally renowned artists such as Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi and Pietro Cascella and others engaged in stone sculpture creation in the Hennraux stone sculpture studio.

Lai Chiman's works start from traditional Chinese culture and transform Eastern classical elements into contemporary artistic vocabulary.

His creations are based on nature, and he uses free knife skills to show the maximum tension of stone sculptures. Since the 1970s, he has been constructing his own creative concept, combining the abstract meaning of hieroglyphs in the Six Methods of Chinese Character Creation with the aesthetic experience of ancient jade, and seeking the maximum capacity of visual expression through Western reasoning and dialectics.

Lai Chiman's creation extends the pictography and understanding in the Six Calligraphy Rules to explore the relationship between nature, man, the universe and life. Extract characteristics and transform them through artistic techniques. Under the pure beauty of shape, it contains the destiny of Eastern philosophy such as perfection, harmony and golden mean.