The landscape in his prints is one he knows rather well - that of the Songhua River in Northeast China.
Many of his artworks are close to abstract compositions.
"There is nothing called abstract art to begin with. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality," he says.
Liang Yu's oil painting Signal is likely to take the viewers to the time of steam locomotives, cabooses and Russian-style train stations.
The son of a railway worker, Liang is obsessed with the idea of trains - the axis around which his childhood memories seem to hover.
He doesn't paint trains and stations exactly as they appeared in his childhood but, rather arranges them in a decorative style, trying to reach out to the people who have similar memories of life around a railway station.
"Painting is like storytelling. Looking at Liang Yu's paintings helps me recall the memories of my days near Hankou railway station of Wuhan province," says visitor Yang Wenjuan.
"Modernization has changed our lives. Liang's paintings are replete with the stories, ideas and romantic mood of a bygone time."
By Cheng Anqi
Editor: Feng Hui
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