Introduction:
Lily is a dancer, artist and actress from Beijing,China now residing in Shawnee Kansas. She was a past member of the Chinese Dancers Association and the Beijing Calligraphy and Fine Arts Association. Her paintings include originals on rice paper, silk and satin. She has developed her own style that is not quite traditional, but similar and very unique. She is a self taught artist who has been painting for about 20 years.

She is internationally known for her dances under her chinese name of Zhang Li, (pronounced jong lee). Her most famous, “Praise of Bamboo”, is a dance approximately seven minutes long during which she completes an ink painting of bamboo. She is the only performer known to do such a dance anywhere in the world. She is also noted for her floral and animal paintings. Her bamboo paintings and her other watercolors have been hung in both public and private collections around the globe, such as the Soviet State Gallery in Moscow, the Presidential Gallery in Egypt, the private collections of the rulers of Kuwait and Malaysia. In the US, Greece, Spain, Italy and other countries, many individuals, government agencies and others groups own her works. She has auctioned the paintings done while dancing for several charities, such as Families Blessed with the World’s Children in the Kansas City area, and the Seattle Opera Guild. She is a regular at many fine art shows locally and as far away as New York. In America she first started selling her paintings in the Pike Place Public Market in Seattle Washington, where she had customers from all over the US and Europe. Many of her customers are repeat buyers because of the “feng shui” her works bring to their lives.