Cai Qinying is a professional artist who combines neoclassical and impressionistic colors with contemporary thinking in oil painting creation. She graduated with a master's degree from the Oil Painting Department of the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in Russia. While studying at the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, she studied under Savkoev (a famous Russian oil painter of the 21st century), Konstantin Darachev (a new generation oil painter at the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in Russia), Ivan Ulanov ( Famous teachers such as Honored Artist of Russia) and Alexander Yurievich Novoselov (member of the Russian Artists Union) received solid academic art education in oil painting techniques, European art history, human anatomy and architecture.
Many of Cai Qinying's oil paintings participated in academic exhibitions and competitions at the Repin Academy of Fine Arts while studying abroad and stayed at the school, including the 2016 oil painting of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, a copy of Giovanni Battista Morini - Мужскойпортрет, and the oil painting "Former Residence" created in the same year. In 2016, she participated in the “Belt and Road” art exhibition organized by the Russian Chinese Artists Association in St. Petersburg, Russia and won an award.