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PORTRAIT ARTIST - WEI LI ZHU

 
Wei Li Zhu
Born: Shanghai, China
 
EDUCATION
1990-1991 Post-Graduate Diploma (Merit) in Painting. Grays School of Art, Aberdeen.
1980-1984 BA (Hons), Painting, Shanghai University
   
EXHIBITIONS
King’s Road Gallery, London 2007; Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London 2007; Star Portraits, County Hall Gallery, London 2005; Star Portraits, BBC TV, 2004; Star portraits, New Art Gallery, Walsall, 2004; Solo Exhibition, The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen, 2004; Reunion, The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen 2002; Solo
Exhibition, The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen, 2001; The Edinburgh Gallery, Edinburgh, 1998; Solo Exhibition,
The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen, 1997; Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, The Edinburgh Gallery, 1997-2001;
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London, 1995-2006; Aberdeen Artists’ Annual Exhibition,
Aberdeen Art Gallery, 1993-2005; Morrison Portrait Competition, RSA, Edinburgh, 1993-1999; Solo Exhibition,
The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen,1993; Solo Exhibition, National Museum, Singapore, 1991; Art and Media
Exhibition, National Museum, Singapore, 1989; International Art Interchange-Asia Art Exhibition, Taiwan, 1989;
International Artists Exhibition (Korea, Japan, Singapore), Tokyo, 1989.
   
AWARDS
U.O.B. Painting of the Year, 1988; British Council (Singapore) Scholarship; Aberdeen Artists (Commended); BBC
Star Portraits.
   
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
BBC Television; British Council, Singapore; Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen; UOB Bank Group, Singapore;
Standard Chartered Bank, London.
 
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
In France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Singapore, UK, USA.
 
SELECTED COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS
Mrs. Wong Kang Seng (wife of Foreign Secretary, Singapore); Mr. Ho Kah Leong (Minister of State for Culture,
Singapore); Mr. Kuek Hong Peng (Chairman, Hong Leong Holdings Ltd., Singapore); Mr. Alan Webster (Head of
British Council, Singapore); Mr. T. Ehret (CEO, Coflexip-Stena, France); Mr. F. Clark (Director, Scofish
International Ltd., Aberdeen); Mr. D. Reid (Deputy Director, Tesco); Mr. D. Spawforth (Headmaster, Merchiston
Castle School, Edinburgh); Mr. D. Craig, O.B.E. (Chairman, George Craig Group Ltd., Aberdeen); Fiona Kennedy
(Singer and TV Presenter); Willie Millar (former Aberdeen FC and Scotland football Captain) and family; Mr.
Brian Lockhart (Headmaster, Robert Gordon College, Aberdeen; Charlie Dimmock (TV Gardener and Presenter,
for BBC TV); Mr. G. Johnston (Johnston Carmichael, Aberdeen); Mr. P. Machray (Johnston Carmichael, Aberdeen).
 
       

'Countryside Girl'

'Kite Players' 'In The Fields'

oil on board

oil on board oil on board

15" x 12.5"

28" x 21" 18" x 17"

sold

£2,750

£825

   

 

   
     
 
The significance of portraiture is not simply to record the likeness, or even to express the character of a particular person. It is that; but more. A good portrait has also to be a good painting, embodying the indefinable something that makes us aware of the presence of Art. 

Originally from China, Wei Li Zhu, a figurative and still life artist, has a Batchelor of Arts Degree from Shanghai Art University and a Post-Graduate Diploma from Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen. Wei Li worked for three years at the Shanghai Television Centre before moving to Singapore to take up a post as a full-time lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She now resides permanently in Aberdeen, married to a Scottish artist and works as a painter and portrait artist. 

Since her initial association with The Rendezvous Gallery in 1994, Wei Li has painted over 75 commissioned portraits of children and adults from Singapore, Holland, France, Ireland, England, The United States of America and Scotland.

 
     
       

'Tea Break' 'Linda Clark Nolan' 'Bobby'

'Lavit Sisters'

oil on board oil oil

oil on canvas

16" x 16"  36" x 30"   22" x 18"

30" x 30"

£750 sold commissioned painting commissioned painting    
  sold sold  
       
       
Mr Brian Lockhart 'Youth' 'Niamh'
Former Rector, oil oil on canvas
Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen 30" x 36" 36" x 28"
  oil on canvas £3000 commissioned painting
  32" x 40"   sold
commissioned painting    
sold    
     
     
 
Wei Li Zhu Commissioned Portrait Prices 2007
 

20" x 16"

£1950

24" x 20"

£2250

30" x 25"

£3000
36" x 36" £4000
40" x 30" £5500
50" x 40" £6800
60" x 40" £8000
 
All prices for commissioned portraits quoted and agreed upon between the artist and the sitter do NOT include travel expenses or framing.
 

 

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