Expressionist

Expressing nature in your own way

Pangkor Island's Ship (1980)

This is one if my dad's early work during his time adventuring with drawing skills and the greatness is you will always discover new feelings or things inside on every look into this painting.

Nowadays, photography is so advance that we can capture the beauties of nature but ones can never replace a painting.

Painting is a mixture of what the painter see and how he interpret in his own way, expressionism is displaying emotional rather than the reality.

There so many masterpieces out there like Edvard Munch's Scream, Vincent Van Goth's Starry Night are legendary examples for expressionist.

Over the rainbow

Over the Rainbow

Some say "It is always darkest before the dawn, there is always  Rainbow after the rain"

Rainbow that show your favorite colors over the sky, this is how it inspired this pieces of art that currently hanging over the wall of my home.

Whenever I feel low, this paintings just remind me of the life is colorful despite the dark hours when we are in trouble but most the times it full of surprise and wonders that blow you away.

So let's cheer for life and don't fall for dark for too long cause the Rainbow is waiting us out there.

Chinese Calligraphy Abstract

What do you see?

The soul of the Assam Tree 1983

The Assam Tree 1983- Expressionist

Painted on a gloomy day in Taiping which is famous as the Rain town in Malaysia.

The Assam tree or better known as Tamarind tree which famous of its having pale yellow flowers and long pods with small seeds embedded in an edible pulp which is main ingredients of the Tamarind sauce prevalent in many Asia and South East Asia cuisine.

But this painting is about the soul of Assam tree in a gloomy day without sunlight, how it branched out seeking out for the Sun.
The leaves of yellowish mixed with green, old and young leaves interwoven strongly portraying the characteristic of Assam tree.
The darker green at the back providing a good contrast with a Turquoise color sky.

Every time whenever you look at it you see something different in it as if the Assam tree is alive.  

Taiping Lake Garden, My Father and His Artworks

FOREWORD:

This is a blog dedicated to my father's artwork, which most of them in impressionism watercolor landscape, while some occasional expressionism and abstract.

Nothing like paint could touch his soul so profundly, and he once passionately  live to paint,  but only  have to abondon paint for live, and never realise the dream being a watercolour artist at last.

TAIPING IN PAINTBRUSH:

 Taiping Lake Garden, Malaysia,  my father eternal muse. 

Born, raised and live in Taiping since 1951, nothing like the pictureque landscape of Taiping could inspired him, especially the ethereal beauty of Taiping Lake Garden. He deeply falls in love with the wayward cloud, the lush greenery of Maxwell Hill, and the breathtaking elegance of the Taiping Lake Garden.  Nothing could allow him to express his profound affection, untill paint walks into his life. It was 1966, in Hua Lian High School, Taiping.

(to be continued)