Donation of art piece to Lions Club International of Melbourne Ausina at Le Grange Gallery

Kohle Capital Markets (KCM) will bid for the art paint from this event and donate it to a charity association named Lions Club International of Melbourne Ausina. It is one of the world’s biggest non-political service organizations, the goal of which is to create and strengthen mutual understanding between people worldwide.

A little more about the artist.

Hongguang Jiang was born in 1966 in Wendeng, Weihai, Shandong Province. He is an artist from Australia and New Zealand who has been studying the art of famous artists since he was a child. He learned about the styles of Chinese painting from artists like Fan Kuan, Huang Gongwang, Xu Wei, Chen Chun, Shi Tao, and Wu Changshuo. Later, he attended the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing to study Chinese painting. In 2002, he immigrated to New Zealand where he began to study Western art. He was especially interested in the artistic styles of Cezanne, Picasso, Blok, and Mondrian.

From 2014 to the current time he is a chairman of the New Zealand Artists Association, the foreign art consultant of Shandong Painting Academy, the director of Shandong Overseas Exchange Association, and the honorary director of Guangdong Li Tiefu Art Museum. And from 2018 to now he is a chairman of the Australian Contemporary Artists Association as well.

In addition, Hongguang Jiang is enthusiastic about public welfare. He pays attention to and calls for green environmental protection. Organizations at home and abroad have praised him many times. In 2009, he donated a painting named "Capital Animal Protection Association" to an animal protection association. In 2012, he won an award for public contribution from the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation.

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