Lei Ling started drawing when she was 13 years old, not childish scribbles but imageries of what were on her mind as well as fragments of stories that she could not describe in words. She earnestly continued to draw but hid all these works from others except her mother and her teachers. After graduated from a Hunan teachers’ training college in 1988, she became an art teacher in her hometown primary school. Her spare times were all devoted to drawings. For over 20 years, these drawings kept piling up in her room chronicling her thoughts and stories. She says that she paints what she visualizes or stories that she likes to tell. The amount of patience that she puts into each of her works defies many contemporary artists. Lei Ling completes all of her pen drawings with Indian ink on white paper. In her works, black lines are lines of ink, while the white lines are thin linear white spaces left empty amongst fields of small black strokes. The white spaces are empty white paper areas left blank but the black spaces are patches of needlework composed of hundreds of black strokes. Lei Ling’s imageries are waiting for you to unveil at Art Beatus Exhibition Space on the ground floor, 35-39 Graham Street, Central, Hong Kong, starting January 30 2008 through the end of February.