.....LESLIE A. PARKES, cspwc
                                              Bowmanville, Ontario
                                              Canada  L1C 0A1

                                              (905) 697-4508		

        EDUCATION:             Primary and Elementary schools in Toronto and Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
                                              D.V.A. grant provided special instruction under directors L.A.C. Panton 
                                                     and Leonard Brooks; graduated 1947.

        BUSINESS:                Employed 38 years in Graphics Division, DRG Packaging, Toronto.
                                                     Supervised Reproduction Art Department.

        DISCIPLINES:            Illustration in most media, especially watercolours; life drawings; lettering; 
                                                     package design.

        TEACHING:                Durham College of Applied Arts and Technology teaching students of 
                                                     Graphics and Interior Design, September 1985 to December 1988.
                                             Individual classes teaching fundamentals of Basic Drawing, Life Drawing 
                                                     and Watercolour Techniques.

        ADJUDICATION:        "Views of Northview", Oshawa Public Library, October, 1988.
                                              Annual Juried Exhibit, The Lindsay Gallery, November, 1993.

        COLLECTIONS:         Ontario Ministry of Revenue, Oshawa.
                                              Vickers & Benson, Toronto.
                                              Windfields Farm Ltd., Oshawa.
                                              Boychyn & Boychyn Barristers, Oshawa.
                                              Scugog Shores Historical Museum, Port Perry.
                                              Crandell's Riverboat Dining Lounge, Port Perry.
                                              Emiel's Place Restaurant, Port Perry.
                                              Diploma Collection, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton.

        SOLO SHOWS:          Ronden Art Gallery, Oshawa.
                                              Brush Strokes, Oshawa.
                                              Library System (3 galleries), Mississauga.
                                              Scugog Memorial Public Library, Port Perry.
                                              St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto.
                                              Newcastle Town Hall, Bowmanville.
                                              Withanee Gallery, Port Perry.
                                              The Framer's Gallery, Port Perry.
                                              Langen Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo.
                                              Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville.

        ASSOCIATIONS:       Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, 1989.