Artist: Don Li-Leger
Title: Calla Lillies
Size: 18" x 18" - Select additional sizes options above
Edition: Artist Signed and Numbered, Limited to 195
Medium: Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas - Watermark applied on above image for protection of copyright.
About the Artist: 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 1970’s and over the next twenty years he built a reputation as a realist painter and printmaker. In the late 1990’s Li-Leger began creating a serious of color-saturated acrylic paintings that evoked abstraction bu 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 color 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 color.”

When Li-Leger starts a painting, he often doesn’t know what direction it will take, preferring to find the journey in the act of discovery. His goal is to be freely expressive, pure and spontaneous, using fewer brushstrokes to say more. He is meditative when he paints, drawing upon the deep universal well of common symbology and images to create works that connect profoundly with the hearts and minds of his audience.

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.” Even, “The orchids and irises represented in my paintings are those I grew in my perennial garden—therefore they hold personal meaning.”