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Don Li-Leger
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| Click here for Li-Leger’s 2000-01 Magazin Art article English version |
| Click here for Li-Leger’s 2000-01 Magazin Art article French version |
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acrylic, canvas
40 x 40 in. | | 1102177 | | $ 6800 CDN |
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acrylic, canvas
48 x 54 in. | | Call to view | | 0607111 | | $ 11000 CDN |
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Don Li-Leger
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Don Li-Leger is a renowned B.C. artist whose body of work spans three decades. Born and raised in British Columbia, Li-Leger early on demonstrated a keen interest in art and an affinity for the natural world around him. This symbiosis of art and nature
has been an instrumental force in Li-Leger’s life and in his decision to become an artist.
Li-Leger pursued studies in art and natural science in the 1970s and over the next twenty years he built a reputation as a realist painter and
printmaker. In the late 1990s Li-Leger began creating a series of colour-saturated acrylic paintings that evoked abstraction but included elements of geometry, natural phenomena, calligraphy and collage. These texturally rich canvases have been described
as “Asian Fusion” paintings and are characterized by a restrained colour palette and architectonic arrangements. Informed by a number of influences, including Asian art, Eastern philosophy, and abstract art; Don Li-Leger has said that this genre of work
“…grew out of my intensive involvement with monoprints, where I improvised and combined various imagery with broad areas of rolled-on saturated colour.”
Although painting and showing his artwork consume much of Li-Leger’s time, his family and
his home and garden continue to be the wellspring of his creativity: “I’ve had numerous mentors throughout my life: family, neighbors and fellow artists. The plants and irises represented in my paintings are those I grow in my perennial garden –
therefore they hold personal meaning.”
A new book on Don Li-Leger’s recent work, titled “Don Li-Leger Paintings” will be available in September 2005.
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Don Li-Leger
Awards
Canadian Nature Artist Scholarship, Okanagan College, Kelowna, BC
Collections
Elkay Investments
Alpine Helicopters
Esso Resources
Ernst and Young
Reco Contracting
Petley-Jones Gallery
Surrey City
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Gallery
Canadian Wildlife Service
World Wildlife Fund
Brant Festival
BC Fishing Resorts Association
Second Century Fund
Education
Plant Ecology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Painting, Terry Frost, The Banff Centre for Fine Art, Banff, AB
Illustration, Frank Beebe, British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria, BC
Print Making, Okanagan College, Kelowna, BC
Exhibitions
White Rock Gallery, White Rock, BC
Petley-Jones Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Marshall Clark Gallery, Tsawwassen, BC
Petley-Jones Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Canadian Pavillion, Epcot Centre, Orlando, FL
"Journey", Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
NY Art Expo, New York, NY
Wetlands & Waterfowl, Canadian Museum of Nature
Wildlife Habitat Canada, Beckett Gallery, Hamilton, ON
Beautiful BC, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Conservation Art Exhibition, Vancouver, BC
Carmanah-Artistic Visions of an Ancient Rainforest, Vancouver, BC
Birds In Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Gallery, Wausau, WI
Spirit of the Wild, World Wildlife Fund, Toronto, ON
Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, CO
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX
Exotica, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
"Art Blooms" Group Show, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
Tranquility, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
Solo Exhibition, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
Publications
Galleries West book review
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