Donna Zhang, artist, original Tibetan portraiture at White Rock Gallery

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Donna Zhang

Original oil paintings. Click any image to enlarge. Biography

"Noon Break"
12 x 12 - oil
$1180 (thick canvas
wrap without frame)
$1300 Custom framed

"Short Trip"
12 x 12 - oil
$1180 Unframed
$1300 Custom framed

"Blue Season"
14 x 18 - oil
$2000 Unframed
$2310 Custom framed

"Catching the Light"
12 x 16 - oil
$1575 Unframed
$1800 Custom framed

"Joyful"
11 x 14 - oil
$1260 Unframed
$1480 Custom framed

"Looking Away"
9 1/2 x 12 - pencil drawing
$1240 Custom framed

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"Young Dreamer"
18 x 24 - oil
$3360 Unframed

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"Colourful Layers"
36 x 48 - oil
$9300 Unframed

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"Contemplation"
36 x 48 - oil
$9300 Unframed

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"Feeling the Sun"
36 x 48 - oil
$9300 Unframed

"Blue Weather"
16 x 20 - oil
$2520 Unframed

"Blue Beads"
16 x 20 - oil
$2520 Unframed

"Nuzzling"
9 x 12 - oil
$1075 Framed

"Young Tibetan"
12 x 16 - oil
$1575 Unframed

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"Unsubdued"
20 x 24 - oil
$4130 Custom framed
$3820 in standard frame

"Against the Light"
36 x 36 - oil
$7000 Unframed

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"Origins"
24 x 36 - oil
$5630 Unframed

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 2010: Fusion
Oct 2008: Depth & Diversity
Oct 2006: From Brush to Bronze
Oct 2002: Interpretations of Spirit & Tranquility

PARTIAL ARCHIVE

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"In Front of the Monastery"
24 x 36 - oil
$6200 Custom framed

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"Magiahma"
9 1/2 x 12 1/2 - pencil drawing
$1240 Framed

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"Something Sweet"
9 1/2 x 12 1/2 - pencil drawing
$1240 Framed

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"Searching"
18 x 24 - oil

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"Curious Smile"
18 x 24 - oil
$3800 Custom framed
$3460 in standard frame

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"In Red"
16 x 20 - oil
$2400 Unframed

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

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

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"Home on the River"
24 x 36 - oil
$5360 Unframed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"School Age"
36 x 36 - oil

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"Sweet Warmth"
24 x 30 - oil
$5200 Custom framed
$5140 with standard frame

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"Unruly"
20 x 24 - oil
$3970 Custom framed
$3840 with standard frame

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"Momentary Pause"
26 x 36 - oil

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"On a Foggy Day"
24 x 36 - oil

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"Little Jewel"
30 x 30 - oil

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"Happy at Home"
16 x 16 - oil

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"My Special Bead"
24 x 30 - oil

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"Colourful Veil"
30 x 36 - oil

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"Heading Home"
36 x 48 - oil

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"The High View"
30 x 40 - oil
$7260 Custom framed

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"Looking Back"
18 x 36 - oil
$5200 Custom framed

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"Beautifully Dressed"
30 x 36 - oil
$7200 Custom framed

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"Bright Light"
30 x 36 - oil

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"Amber Glow"
30 x 40 - oil

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"Tibetan Pearl"
24 x 24 - oil
$4750 Custom framed

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"Snuggled In"
30 x 30 - oil

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"Wild Flower #1"
24 x 30 - oil

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"Nature's Child"
30 x 36 - oil

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"Tibetan Cabalero"
20 x 24 - oil

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"Dreaming"
30 x 36 - oil

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"Precious Gem"
20 x 24 - oil

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"Child of Light"
20 x 24 - oil

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"In the Backyard"
24 x 30 - oil

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"With Beads in My Hair"
24 x 24 - oil

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"Flower Child"
30 x 36 - oil

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"Tibetan Girl"
16 x 20 - oil

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"After School"
30 x 40 - oil

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"Concentrating"
30 x 30 - oil

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"Always with Mom"
30 x 36 - oil

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"The Golden Season"
22 x 28 - oil

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"Yellow Jewel"
30 x 40 - oil

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"View in the Morning"
24 x 30 - oil

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"Bundled in Fur"
24 x 30 - oil

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"Inquisitive"
18 x 24 - oil

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"A Reflective Moment"
20 x 24 - oil

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"Li Li"
24 x 30 - oil

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"Afternoon Breeze"
24 x 24 - oil

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"Soft Wind"
30 x 40 - oil

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"High Mountain Boy"
30 x 30 - oil

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"Red Hairstring"
24 x 30 - oil

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"Quiet Girl"
16 x 20 - oil

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"The Plateau Girl"
24 x 24 - oil

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"My Favourite One"
30 x 30 - oil

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"Sweetness"
30 x 30 - oil

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"Natural Beauty"
16 x 20 - oil
$2450 Framed

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"Friends"
24 x 36 - oil
$6135 Framed

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"Ai Mei"
30 x 40 - oil
$6750 Framed

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"Sweet Grass"
30 x 36 - oil

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"Pause for Thought"
30 x 40 - oil

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"Tending the Herd"
20 x 30 - oil

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"Preparing for the Distance"
24 x 30 - oil

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"Pastoral Madrigal"
24 x 48 - oil
$4370 Framed

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"Dan Zhu"
30 x 36 - oil
$6100 Framed

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