Wong Wa was born in the Fujian province in 1953 - among a family of artists and teachers. Ever since attracted to arts as a young boy, he starts learning as a teenager from great artists of various specialties : paintings, calligraphy, seal carving, sculpture and western paintings. Then he has been employed for four years by the city cultural center of Fuzhou, head city of his birth province.

 

In 1978, he decides to leave China to go to Hong Kong, which represents a bridge on intellectual, architectural and social levels, between the East and the West. He has worked for seven years in movie advertising and made numerous posters for Hong Kong productions. He managed to keep learning deeper in calligraphy and seals, pulishing on a regular basis in a specialized revue at the time.