Po Shun was introduced to carpentry at the age of five when in 1946 he was sent to Holmewood House, a boarding school near Tunbridge Wells. At the age of eleven had a painting exhibited at the Royal Drawing Society in London and was awarded an honorable mention. His next school was Leighton Park, a Quaker school near Reading. He had his first one-man show when he was 17 years old in 1958 at the Hammersmith Art Gallery, London. It received a positive review in Artnews but no paintings were sold.