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Qu leilei received his training in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy from private master Tan Wancun in Beijing during the years 1958-64. In 1974, he started studying Western drawing and painting, followed in 1977 by a year of Anatomy study at the Beijing Medical University. Before Qu moved to England in 1986, he taught at the Beijing Fine Art School and the British-Chinese Brush Painting Society. He was also active as an Art Director for the China Central TV, where he won the National Award, First Prize, for his film The Hard Time.
In London he studied painting and drawing at the Central School of Art and Design, and taught Chinese Art at the Mary Ward Centre, The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Ruskin School of Fine Art in Oxford.
His works have been widely exhibited in one-man shows and joint exhibitions in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, Germany and England.
In London he studied painting and drawing at the Central School of Art and Design, and taught Chinese Art at the Mary Ward Centre, The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Ruskin School of Fine Art in Oxford.
His works have been widely exhibited in one-man shows and joint exhibitions in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, Germany and England.