中国工艺美术大师、著名黄杨木雕艺术家叶润周先生,因病经多方医治无效,于1996年11月18日不幸与世长辞,享年79岁。这是黄杨木雕艺术的一大损失,也是浙江工艺美术界及中国工艺美术事业的一大损失。叶润周先生于1917年出生于乐清市地团前岸村一个祖传四代的木雕世家。10岁时随父学艺,14岁已从事木雕创作,1940年他的作品就在浙江省民间艺术品展览会上崭露头角。叶润周先生在近七十年的艺术生涯中,持续创作了许多优秀的、高水平的黄杨木雕拭品。其主要作品,在五十年代有《八仙》、《饲养员》、《海 Chinese arts and crafts master, the famous boxwood artist Ye Runzhou woodcut, due to illness by multiple medical treatment ineffective, November 18, 1996 unfortunately died, at the age of 79. This is a big loss of boxwood carving art, but also a big loss of Zhejiang arts and crafts and the cause of Chinese arts and crafts. Mr. Ye Runzhou was born in 1917 in an ancestral four generations of woodcarving family in Qian’an Village, At the age of 10 with his father art, 14-year-old has been engaged in wood carving, in 1940 his works in Zhejiang Province folk art exhibition emerge. In nearly 70 years of artistic career, Mr. Ye Runzhou continued to create many excellent, high-quality boxwood wipes. The main works in the fifties there are “Eight Immortals”, “breeder”, "sea