Donna Zhang, Tibetan portraiture

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Donna Zhang

Original oil paintings. Click any image to enlarge. Biography

"Magiahma"
30 x 40 - oil
$7050 Custom framed
$6600 with standard frame

"Plateau Princess"
24 x 30 - oil
$5200 Custom framed
$5140 with standard frame

"Child of Fortune"
24 x 30 - oil
$5200 Custom framed
$5140 with standard frame

"Doorway"
24 x 36 - oil
$5740 Framed

SOLD
"Peering Out"
30 x 30 - oil
$5780 Framed

"Waiting in the Backyard"
24 x 30 - oil
$5200 Custom framed
$5140 with standard frame

SOLD
"Standing in Winter"
36 x 36 - oil
$7750 Custom framed
$7120 with standard frame

SOLD
"Girl in Ahli"
30 x 40 - oil
$7050 Custom framed
$6600 with standard frame

"Under the Sun"
20 x 24 - oil
$3970 Custom framed
$3840 with standard frame

"Meditating on the Hill"
16 x 16 - oil

"Tibetan Dreams"
16 x 16 - oil

SOLD
"Little Handkerchief"
30 x 36 - oil
$6400 Custom framed
$6000 with standard frame

SOLD
"Innocent Glance"
24 x 30 - oil
$5200 Custom framed
$5140 with standard frame

"Warm Winter"
24 x 30 - oil
$5200 Custom framed
$5140 with standard frame

"Home on the River"
36 x 48 - oil
$10,060 Custom framed
$9320 with standard frame

"Watching from Afar"
30 x 48 - oil
$8750 Custom framed
$7840 with standard frame

DONNA DONGHONG ZHANG was born in the Jilin Province of China in 1958. She enjoyed art from an early age, recalling that as a child she would playfully give expression to her friends’ wishes for new shoes or toys by sketching them on paper. She later went on to study art for about 13 years, achieving mastery in the techniques of etching.

Donna is formally trained as an art educator, first at an institute in China in the 1980s, and during the l990s at Japan’s Saitama University where she obtained a Master’s Degree of Arts.

The year 1999 was pivotal for Donna. She accompanied a small group to a remote region of Tibet on an ecological trip whose goal was to preserve the habitat of an endangered monkey. Once within Tibet, she came into close contact with its indigenous peoples and was immediately struck by their strength, dignity and openness. She was deeply moved by the immediacy and warmth of the experience, which stood in marked contrast to the reservedness which typifies many urban cultures. The 1999 trip and two further trips in 2001 and 2002 were the inspiration for Donna’s current work in portraiture, which reflects better than words ever could the profound beauty and resilience she sees in the faces of her subjects. As Donna says simply, "Their clothes are not clean, but their hearts are pure."

Major shows at White Rock Gallery

Oct 2008: Depth & Diversity
Oct 2006: From Brush to Bronze
Oct 2002: Interpretations of Spirit & Tranquility

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