Huang was born in 1939 in Shanmen Town, Hunan Province, a beautiful region scattered with emerald mountains and limpid lakes, but also a remote region of poverty. At the age of 15, Huang was admitted by Hunan Art Normal School and studied under Master Wang Zhengde. It was Wang, a man strictly following the orthodox British watercolor, who led Huang into the world of traditional watercolor painting. Soon, Huang went on to pursue further studies in the art department of the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, majoring in watercolor painting, traditional Chinese painting and oil painting. Always diligent and trying his best to meet the rigid demands of basic skill training set by the department, Huang graduated with exceedingly good marks and then began his career as an artist.

In August this year, Huang's watercolor paintings were on display at the China National Museum of Fine Arts, inciting unprecedented vibrations through the art scene. Experts spoke highly of his works, saying that they had attained advanced artistic levels, a perfect combination of British watercolor's rich expression and Chinese traditional painting's lingering charm. The strong point of watercolor immediately emerges compared with the objects in reality: it possesses an excellent likeness in spirit. With his brushes, Huang not only reproduces various beautiful elements of nature but also expresses inner beauty, all of which cannot be recorded by any photographs or cameras. This may be where the charm and success of Huang's paintings lies.

Hometown of Lsaak Levitan brings us to Russia, a land of rivers, ferries, churches with golden tops scattered in jade forests, and log cabins with blue tops, giving the viewer a sense of familiarity and warmth. Huang's exquisite depiction gives the viewer the impression that he is closely following the footprints of Lsaak Levitan, a great painter famous for landscape paintings. The painting is not only a way of displaying the land that nurtured Levitan, a man of talent and inspiration, but also Huang's unique way of showing his deep respect for Levitan as well as other Western watercolor painting giants. Huang has carefully studied and copied original works of many famous artists, including Bonington, Varley, Turner, and Leachman from Britain, and Wyeth from the United States.

While adhering to Western techniques, Huang also absorbs Chinese paintings' tradition and spirit. His paintings, possessing both lasting appeal of traditional Chinese painting and rich expression of oil painting, combine the uniqueness of both Chinese and Western style and display the essence of watercolor painting. Huang's works are rich in poetic flavor. Moon on the Xiangjiang River, Melody of Lights on Fishing Boats on Dongting Lake presents the prospect of poetry and the charm of watercolor techniques to paint regions of rivers and lakes. The painting will make people who have never been to Dongting Lake have the impulse to write sentimental verse to express their excitement and astonishment at the pastoral scenery. Meanwhile, Huang's other watercolor painting works, without rivers, lakes or water as subjects, also have strong expressions. Small Town of Morocco, Jerusalem, and some works taking Tibet as the subject, all painted in the "dry painting" method and colored only once, vividly reproduce the local customs and practices with sharp contrasts in color and bold and unrestrained techniques.