Born on 1992 in St. Petersburg, FL and residing in Savannah, GA, Tu is a self taught oil painter since October 2023. He paints loosely and alla-prima primarily. A lover of music, whatever music he has on while painting will influence his art in multiple aspects as he enters the flow state including the expressive brush strokes and overall tone and color in a sort of automatism style painting verging on abstraction. His major influences include Van Gogh, Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, John Singer Sargent, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Claude Monet.