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I have wanted to start a blog for a long time. As a matter of fact, it has taken me almost 9 month to get going!

Why do I want to blog? I think it’s a great way of sharing a little of all the fascinating events, ideas and people that I fall over in my life. It also forces me to write more and as my primary focus at this moment of my life is expression through colour and creativity, this way I will also now be working on one more aspect of creativity.

My primary focus for creativity at the moment is painting. I’m an artist and am called a Flamboyantly Colourful Visionary. I simply LOVE colours! And I think that we are creative beings… we just need to find out how to unlock our abilities.

My mission is to help people realize that we all have immense creative capabilities and that by allowing ourselves to play and actively use colours and creativity in our lives, we can let go of stress and shift our state of being.

Send me a message if you want to know what I can do to help your creativity!

I donated MYR4,200 to Yayasan Sumbeams Home

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I am still in awe after my last art exhibition “Colours of Life. A Celebration of Life, Art and Culture” at Hotel Equatorial. Having finalised the last details with the hotel, delivered sold paintings, picking up the rest etc,

I am happy to announce that including the sale of my paintings I have been able to donate MYR4,200 to our chosen charity Yayasan Sunbeams Home. This is also thanks to a great partnership with Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur and fantastic collaboration with many great people such as Nila Palacios, Lena Lim, Dr. T Selva, Tan Chong Meng, Rajen the Magician and Elke Wollschon.

I went to Yayasan Sunbeams Home’ homeschooling centre on a Sunday in March together with social media expert Lena Lim and we met up with Pastor Victor, his wife, a teacher and some kids and it was a great pleasure to see all the work that they do for orphaned children.Yayasan Sunbeams Home cares and provides for orphaned, abused, neglected and abandoned children, and children from broken families, irrespective of their background or beliefs. I was in particular impressed with their home schooling programme and centre.

A large number of the children have had problems integrating in the public school and to follow the curriculum. Therefore the management of the orphanage decided to teach the children themselves, following a home schooling programme. This has given happier kids who are learning more and the donation from my art show is going toward shelves in the school.

The school employs 4 teachers and they need money each month to pay for them and to develop the school further so if you are looking for a charity to support, I think this is a very worthy cause.

Read more about Yayasan Sunbeams Home here: http://sunbeamshome.org/  and like them on Facebook too please: www.facebook.com/YayasanSunbeamsHome

I like the Yayasan Sunbeams Home concept so much that we have agreed that I will help teach the kids art and creativity and we are starting to prepare for this very soone. If you know who can support us with art materials and supplies, please let me know.

I have actually been asked many times whether I teach art and creativity to children… now I will start on this at Yayasan Sunbeams Home as my community project and maybe later, if the demand is there, do something for children from families for a fee. More on this when I feel ready.

Next solo exhibition is opening on 5th January 2012

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There is less than a week for Christmas at the moment of writing this. Normally my house here in Kuala Lumpur is neatly decorated with a Christmas tree and beautiful X-mas decs, some are homemade and some are fabulous designer decorations from Georg Jensen in Denmark. This year I have had no time at all… I have been preparing my up and coming solo exhibition.

It all started with a cancellation of what should have been my exhibition during the month of December at Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur. My art show was going to be part of their Christmas tree lighting event for the VIP customers but for some reason or other, outside my control, it was cancelled. However, instead they offered me a bigger event dedicated to my art with a better location in the hotel. It was definitely an offer I could not refuse. It also meant that I have been working very hard ever since because now it’s a full on solo event with all that entails.

And typically me, what was an art exhibition has now developed into a mini festival with a lot of associated activities. The art exhibition is called “Colours of Life.  A Celebration  of Life, Art and Culture” and it will portray different aspects of life as well as my art.

To me colour is energy… and energy is life. With the title “Colours of Life” it quickly became obvious to me that as well as showing different aspects of life through my art I could do that through associated events too. Because it’s all about the energy… and now we will be displaying events with fabulous energies in them!

I believe that art should be available to all walks of life and not only hang in exclusive galleries. That is why I am so happy to work with Hotel Equatorial… a lot of people will walk past my art and receive a little of the colour energy that I am here to give. I believe that more people will be touched by my art in a hotel than in a gallery.

That’s how the idea of a mini festival came about. There are now more than 15 different happenings taking place during the period of my exhibition from 5 January to 6 February 2012. Check out the programme elsewhere on my web site.

An auspicious event

The whole event is quite auspicious to me and I’m sure it was all meant to be. Now listen to this:

At my first talk with the hotel I discovered that the event would be covering the Chinese New Year period. Of course I felt proud to be Danish and exhibiting over Chinese New Year in Kuala Lumpur of course but when I started to look into the Chinese New Year of the Water Dragon I discovered (unbeknown to me but surely not the Chinese) that the New Year energies starts already starts on 4th of February. That’s when I will be putting up the paintings for the show!

Studying the Dragon further I discovered that the Dragon’s favorite colours is yellow. The latest four paintings that I had created for the exhibition was primarily… you guessed it… yellow!

In the Chinese horoscope I am a Tiger and looking more into the relationship between the Dragon and the Tiger I find… that they are very good friends!

So here we go: my next solo exhibition is called “Colours of Life. A Celebration of Life, Art and Culture” and it is taking place at the main lobby of Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur from 5 January to 6 February 2012.

Check more details here: http://www.donvang.com/?p=346

 

NEW Opening Date of “Art with a Heart”

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Due to the planned illegal political rally on 9th of July expected to gather thousands of people in Kuala Lumpur protesting and demonstrating and with planned closing of many roads in and around KL, the organiser of my exhibition has decided to postpone the opening of “Art with a Heart” one week.

The NEW opening date is Saturday 16 July at 4 pm at the Gateway in AmpWalk, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.

The exhibition is extended until 30 July. Everything else stays the same.