蔡天涛,1941年生于广州,籍贯广东南海,是中国著名岭南派大师、前广东画院副院长方人定先生、广州美术学院副院长黎雄才教授的入室弟子。现为美国国际美术家协会副会长、美国洛杉矶艺术家联合会副会长、美国中美文物协会副会长、美国洛杉矶艺术研究院教授。二十世纪七十年代,蔡天涛即以“岭南牡丹 Cai Tiantao, born in 1941 in Guangzhou and native of the South China Sea, is a famous disciple of Lingnan School, a former master of Guangdong Art Academy, and a visiting student of Professor Li Xincai, vice president of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently the vice president of the American International Artists Association, the vice president of the Los Angeles Federation of Artists, the vice president of the American-Chinese Cultural Association, and the professor of the Los Angeles Institute of the Arts. In the seventies of the twentieth century, CaiTianTao called ”Lingnan peony."