DAVID V. ALEXANDER (Shalmeerhee): A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto, Alexander was born in Windsor, Ontario. For several years he was a participating artist-fellow of the Patmos Workshop and Gallery , and later the Alpha Gallery, exhibiting throughout southern Ontario. Extensive world travel has taken him to many locations around the globe . His hand-painted cards have been presented to Pope John Paul II and religious leaders of both the Jewish and Muslim faiths in Jerusalem. In 1982, the construction of an aesthetically -based language called Yan"kahba led him to invent his name shalmeerhee ("love-light"). He is an art teacher residing in Stirling, and paints in egg tempera, oil and acrylic.
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