C.X. LI 蔡小丽(aka Cai Xiaoli b 1956 Xi’an, Shaanxi Province) graduated then taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. In 1986 she was awarded the prize of most outstanding painting at the Artists Exhibition and at The Sixth National Art Exhibition of China both in Beijing. In 1988 she joined her husband, painter Wang Jianan 王迦南, in the United Kingdom. Cai is known for traditional Chinese flora and foliage that symbolise luck and abundance such as bamboo, orchids, narcissi, peonies, interpreted in Pan-Asian style using strong pigments with deep saturation.  

She has since exhibited jointly with him or in a collective in Munich, Hamburg, New York, Amsterdam, London, Cologne and Geneva . She had a solo show in 1990 in Oxford. In 2003 The National Arts Museum in Beijing mounted « Beauty of Great Masters » featuring 70 works by her and her husband.