Shi Le
Shi Le is a professional artist and an art educator. He received a bachelor's degree in fine art at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute of China and a Master's at the University of Waterloo. Shi Le has taught fine arts in various post-secondary institutions, including Lakehead University, Queen's University and the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
Shi Le's landscape painting depicts scenes of pastoral beauty formed around immediate surroundings in South Ontario. Through his painting, he is re-interpreting the tradition of Canadian landscape painting. To him, "landscape is a recreation of the moment in memory that captures my emotion in response to the truthfulness of nature. From Creek series to the inner woods and grassland, my surroundings' personal response and understanding are central. Through a palette knife-stroke and flat brush-stroke, I hope to reactivate on the canvas the fascination that the landscape of Ontario has drawn on me."
West End Gallery respectfully acknowledges the Lekwungen peoples, specifically the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations, on whose traditional lands our Victoria gallery stands. We also acknowledge that our Edmonton gallery is situated on Treaty 6 territory, a traditional gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples, including the Cree, Blackfoot, Metis, Nakota Sioux, Iroquois, Dene, Ojibway/Saulteaux/Anishinaabe, and Inuit.