To my friend and the great artist Xiao Luo

In May 2009 we met and since it has been such a great pleasure to see his fast and extremely good development both as an artist and as a human being.

Let me first of all state that Xiao Lou is an outstanding artist talent, one that is hardly born more then a few each century in the whole world.

Combined with his extreme capacity of hard working this has resulted in even greater achievements of technical and artistic brilliance when he now is working with themes of Chinese Mythology and his own world of artistic fantasy.

Human beings, animals and nature merge under his fingers as he models in clay his free artist soul's expression of innermost feelings.

Xiao Lou then chooses the most difficult materials to cast his sculptures not only in bronze but also in stainless steel to utter perfection.

Meeting with Xiao Lou is always a great pleasure and I very much look forward to the next time when we will meet, share a meal and talk about art, artists and the world with this humble and genuinely sensitive and generous personality who always is the next to help when there is need.

I wish Xiao Lou the best of future, great luck and success in his life

Richard