Paul Lee
Artist
Art Therapist and Consultant
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Profile
Brief:
Mr. Lee Thiam Seng
(Paul) is an artist, art therapist, and founder of UniqArts and Technologies.
Mr. Lee received his Master in Arts in Art Therapy from LaSalle College
of the Arts and his Bachelor degree in Management at Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology (RMIT), Australia. He received his fine art certificate from
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore. Mr. Lee has been teaching art
since 1989 and experience in running different types of creative therapies
for individuals, group or corporations.He created the first virtual artclass
via internet - www.onlineArtclass.com and s the author of the popular
drawing books series "Drawing Is Easy". He is also the developer and trainer
for the ARTeach Teachers Training Course. Many of his students are winners
of art competitions, for both national and international.
Mr.
Lee has facilitated many creative and art projects for therapeutic and
developmental for children and adult. He has experiences in running individual
and group art therapy treatment for pupils at Association for Persons
with Special Needs (APSN), women with breast cancer at KK Women's
and Children's Hospital (KKH), psychotic patients at Changi General
Hospital (CGH) Psychiatric Ward, older adults (geriatric) at Kwong
Wai Shiu Hospital's (KWSH) Day Rehabilitative Center and Geriatric
Day Hospital (GDH) at CGH. Mr. Lee conducted a research at KKH with Institutional
Review Board (IRB) approval for his master thesis: "Art Therapy as a Modality
of Healing in Stages - For Women with Breast Cancer."
Detail Profile and Milestones
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1966: Born in Singapore
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Awarded 1st prize of the On-the-spot
Cartoon Competition, organized by Choa Chu Kang Community Center
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Awarded 3rd prize of the National
Painting and Calligraphy Competition, organized by Tanjong Pagar Constituency
Outram Park Community Center Art Club
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Awarded 2nd prize of the National
Chinese Painting On-the-spot competition, organized by Braddell Heights
Community Center
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Chairman of Teck Whye Art Society,
Teck Whye Community Club
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1989 : Graduated with fine art
certificate from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)
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1991 : presented a Chinese Painting
to Mr. Peter Sung, Minister of State for National Development & Home
Affairs
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Comic artworks were published
by LianHe Zhao Pao - Singapore Major Chinese News Paper
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Conducted Children Art Classes
at Teck Whye Community Club, Normanton Park Condonimum, Bukit Batok PAP
center and NTUC Lifestyle Resort
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1994 : Graduated with a Bachelor
Management Degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technologies (RMIT),
Australia.
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Author of the drawing books
series Drawing is Easy - Basic series, Animals 1, Animals 2, Birds series
and Marine Life series.
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Disciple of famous local artists
- Mr. Ang Cheng Chye and Mr. Nai Swee Leng
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Mr. Lee paintings have been
exhibited in many Art Exhibitions such as Teck Whye Art Exhibition, National
Day Arts Carnival, Singapore Port of Authority Artists Encouragement Exhibition,
Nanyang Artists Exhibition, Chong Boon Exhibition, Empress Place Museum
Art Exhibition, etc..
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1995 : Established UniqArts
and Technologies to offer professional art education for children
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1996: Developed UniqArts home
page www.uniqArts.com.sg, to cover UniqArts activities including featuring
children Art gallery, books information and selected students photo.
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1999: UniqArts home page listed
in top-50 choice web site in Singapore
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2000: Developed knowledge-based
Art enrichment program
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2000: Created a virtual classroom
www.onlineArtclass.com
for learning foundation of art via internet
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2000: Conducted Creative Workshop
for parents at Bukit Panjang National Library
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2001: Introduced Fine Art for
Secondary and Adult
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2001 & 2002: Conduct Art
courses at NTUC Downtown East - Explorer Kids
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2003: Pioneer the ARTeach
Teacher Training Course to train Art teachers in teaching artistry and
creativity to children
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2003: Started to offer Professional
Caricature Service for corporate and individual
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2003: Introduced creative 3-dimensional
Sculpture course into UniqArts curriculum
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2004: Developed a program for
creative thinking and exercises - Creativity-Juice,
Right-Brain-Active (RBA) tools and Creative Problem Solving Tool.
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2004: Teaching at Greenwood
Primary School for Art enrichment program
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2004: Introduce Manga
and Comics Art into UniqArts curriculum
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2005: Teaching at Hwa Chong
Junior College for Elective Enrichment Program
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2005: Teaching and mural art
services at Christ Church Secondary School
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2005: Developed Animation-is-Easy
program that bring animation and fun effective learning for interest and
academic subjects
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2006: Developed ChinesExplorer
program for children to explore and learn the art of chinese culture with
animation, calligraphy and brush painting
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2006: Teaching at Anderson Primary
School for Manga Art Class.
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2006: Certified as School Art
instructor by Ministry of Education
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2008: Art Therapy Internship:
Assoication for Persons with Special Needs
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2008-2009: Art Therapy Clinical
Researcher: KK Women's and Children's Hospital
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2009: Art Therapy Internship:
Changi General Hospital
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2009: Art Therapy Internship:
Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital
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2009: Master
Thesis - Art Therapy as Modality of Healing in Stages for Women with Breast
Cancer
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2009: Graduated with a Master
Degree in Arts - Art Therapy, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore
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2009: Conducted Art Therapy
Workshop at Health Promotion Board (HPB)
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2009: Initiated Positivity+Happiness
Art Therapy professional group on LinkedIn
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2010: Lecturer on Art Therapy:
TOUCH Community Service
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2010: Conducted Art Therapy
Mass Workshop at Ang Mo Kio Primary School
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2010: Member of Advisory Council
with Art Therapy Without Borders, Inc.
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2011: Conducted Creative Art
Therapy - Family Bonding in Taiwan
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