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About the Artist Oriental Visions Painting Series: the paintings in this series grew out of my intensive involvement with monoprints, where I improvised and combined various imagery with broad areas of rolled-on saturated colour. Here, I have returned to painting, in my desire to integrate the spontaneity and liveliness of Oriental brushwork that has long inspired and influenced me. Using Chinese as well as Western bristle brushes, I apply acrylic paint and gels on canvas, often layered transparent colour on rice paper collage to achieve desired effects. As with much of my work, nature remains an underlying theme. In some paintings the calligraphy is taken from ancient Japanese and Chinese poems, and reflects my interest and studies in Asian painting, travels, and philosophy. -Don Li-Leger Don Li-Leger was born in North Vancouver in 1948 and attended public school in Maple Ridge. His early teachers include Alex Straker, a Group of Seven colleague, and Master H. Chang, with whom he studied Chinese brush painting. Li-Leger has studied painting at the Vancouver School of Art and the School of Fine Art at Banff Centre, and printmaking at Okanagan College.

Ciriculum Vitae Selected Solo Exhibitions 2007 Solo Exhibition, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB 2005 Tranquility, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB 2004 Art Blooms Group Show, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB 2003 Exotica, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB 2002 Interpretations of Spirit and Tranquility White Rock Gallery, White Rock, BC 2002 Journey, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC 2001 – 02 NY Art Expo, New York, NY 2000 – 02 Petley-Jones Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1998 Marshall Clark Gallery, Tsawwassen, BC 1993 – 94 Wetlands & Waterfowl, Canadian Museum of Nature 1991 Wildlife Habitat Canada, Beckett Gallery, Hamilton, ON 1991 Beautiful BC, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1990 Conservation Art Exhibition, Vancouver, BC 1989 Petley-Jones Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1989 Carmanah-Artistic Visions of an Ancient Rainforest, Vancouver, BC 1987 Canadian Pavillion, Epcot Centre, Orlando, FL 1983 – 84 Birds In Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Gallery, Wausau, WI 1983 – 84 Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, CO 1983 – 84 Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX 1982 Spirit of the Wild, World Wildlife Fund, Toronto, ON Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 Re-Gifted, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, BC Selected Collections Elkay Investments Alpine Helicopters Esso Resources Ernst and Young Reco Contracting Surrey City Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Gallery Canadian Wildlife Service World Wildlife Fund Brant Festival BC Fishing Resorts Association Second Century Fund