Profile
Brief: Mr. Lee Thiam Seng (Paul) is a Singapore born artist, art educator
and founder of UniqArts and Technologies. Mr. Lee was trained in Nanyang
Academy of Fine Arts for his fine arts. He has been teaching children art
since 1989 and holding a Degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
(RMIT), Australia. Mr. Lee created the first virtual artclass via internet
- www.onlineArtclass.com and he is 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 been
running Creative Workshop for parents, teachers and corporations. Currently,
he is undergoing postgraduate for Master in Art Art Therapy with Lasalle
College of the Arts.
Profile
- Born in Singapore in 1966
- Awarded 1st prize of the On-the-spot Cartoon Competition, organized by Choa Chu Kang Community Center
- Awarded 3rd prize of the National Painting and Calligraphy Competition, organized by Tanjong Pagar Constituency Outram Park Community Center Art Club
- Awarded 2nd prize of the National Chinese Painting On-the-spot competition, organized by Braddell Heights Community Center
- Chairman of Teck Whye Art Society, Teck Whye Community Club
- 1989 : Graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)
- 1991 : presented a Chinese Painting to Mr. Peter Sung, Minister of State for National Development & Home Affairs
- Cartoon and comic works were selected and published by LianHe Zhao Pao - Singapore Major Chinese News Paper
- Conduct Children Art Classes at Teck Whye Community Club, Normanton Park Condonimum, Bukit Batok PAP center and NTUC Lifestyle Resort
- 1994 : Graduated with a Bachelor Degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technologies (RMIT), Australia.
- Author of the drawing books series Drawing is Easy - Basic series, Animals 1, Animals 2, Birds series and Marine Life series.
- Disciple of famous local artists - Mr. Ang Cheng Chye and Mr. Nai Swee Leng
- 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..
- 1995 : Established UniqArts and Technologies to offer professional art education for children
- 1996: Developed UniqArts home page www.uniqArts.com.sg, to cover UniqArts activities including featuring children Art gallery, books information and selected students photo.
- 1999: UniqArts home page listed in top-50 choice web site in Singapore
- 2000: Developed knowledge-based Art enrichment program
- 2000: Created a virtual classroom www.onlineArtclass.com for learning foundation of art via internet
- 2000: Conducted Creative Workshop for parents at Bukit Panjang National Library
- 2001: Introduced Fine Art for Secondary and Adult
- 2001 & 2002: Conduct Art courses at NTUC Downtown East - Explorer Kids
- 2003: Pioneer the ARTeach Teacher Training Course to train Art teachers in teaching artistry and creativity to children
- 2003: Started to offer Professional Caricature Service for corporate and individual
- 2003: Introduced creative 3-dimensional Sculpture course into UniqArts curriculum
- 2004: Developed a program for creative thinking and exercises - Creativity-Juice, Right-Brain-Active (RBA) tools and Creative Problem Solving Tool.
- 2004: Teaching at Greenwood Primary School for Art enrichment program
- 2004: Introduce Manga and Comics Art into UniqArts curriculum
- 2005: Teaching at Hwa Chong Junior College for Elective Enrichment Program
- 2005: Teaching and mural art services at Christ Church Secondary School
- 2005: Developed Animation-is-Easy program that bring animation and fun effective learning for interest and academic subjects
- 2006: Developed ChinesExplorer program for children to explore and learn the art of chinese culture with animation, calligraphy and brush painting
- 2006: Teaching at Anderson Primary School for Manga Art Class.
- 2006: Certified as School Art instructor by Ministry of Education
- 2007: Postgraduate study : MA Art Therapy, Lasalle College of the Arts
