1942年7月生于武汉市。湖北美术学院中国画系教授。17岁即以绘制传统古代绘画为职业。1979年考取湖北美术学院中国画专业研究生，毕业后留校执教山水画和花鸟画，并致力于现代水墨艺术的创作与研究。出版《山水画艺术处理》（湖北美术出版社）、《心象风景·刘一原水墨艺术1986一2008》（人民美术出版社）、《心象伸延·刘一原水墨艺术2008一2014》（上海人民美术出版社）其作品被中国美术馆、上海美术馆、广州美术馆、今日美术馆、武汉美术馆、湖北美术馆、广州大学城美术馆、厦门美术馆、以及湖北省博物馆、湖南省博物馆等多家国家级艺术机构收藏并举办个人画展。

　　Liu Yiyuan, a professor in the department of Chinese painting of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, was born in July, 1942 in Wuhan. In 1959, at the age of 17, he started his art career as an apprentice copying ancient Chinese paintings. He become a graduate student in Chinese Paitings in Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 1979, and hence stayed on teaching traditional bird-flower and landscape painting and making innovative modernistic ink paintings, which are labeled "Landscape of the mind".