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| | Australian artist, interior decorators, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | She is descended from a line of artists - Karl Timoleon Von Neff was a court painter to Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia and her father, Edgar Aavik, was an artists teacher and exhibiting artist whose paintings were displayed in such places as London, Paris, Chicago and New York. |
 | | In 1948 the family moved to Australia where, in New South Wales, Leene herself started to draw and where at 7 years of age, she subsequently sold her first coloured drawing for 2 pounds. |
 | | Her paintings are in collections in Estonia, Sweden, The Channel Islands, and the USA as well as Australia. |
| www.aavikartand.com /australian_artist_leene.htm (308 words) |
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