Born in 1934 in the cultural old town of Lukang, Shih Ch'un-fu was nurtured artistically as a small child in painting and calligraphy by his grandfather, as a junior high school pupil by his art teacher, and as a student at Hsinchu Teachers 'School by the elderly painter Li Tse-fan.
施純夫，一九三四年出生於文化古都鹿港，自幼受其祖父在書法、繪畫等薰陶，初中就讀彰化中學，受美術老師張杰的啟迪，繼而在新竹師範受教時又受繪畫前輩李澤藩的影響。