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By Robert Watkins
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obert Watkins is a first-year student at Osgoode Hall Law School. He painted After school in 2005 while he was
studying Chinese folk art at the Jinshan Peasant Painting Academy in Shanghai, China. He spent two months at
the academy and learned the basics of Jinshan folk art, which is a distinctive style of Chinese folk painting. Before
travelling to Shanghai, Watkins spent six months studying traditional Chinese painting at Wenzhou University. Shortly
after returning to Canada in 2006, he obtained a bachelor's degree in humanities from Carleton University and enrolled in
law school last year. Watkins continues to produce art and is working towards having his own exhibition in Toronto. ■
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