Khoo Cheang Jin, a member of the illustrious Malaysian Watercolour Organization and the Penang Watercolour Society, is a seasoned watercolourist with a penchant for indigenous and heritage buildings, marketplaces and points of interest with historical charm and naturally appealing character.
His latest collection of watercolours are taken from his journey to Egypt, China and his homestate Penang, capturing places of special interest, of people and places, bustling hidden alleyways, and images of daily rustic settings and happenings imbued with a sense of romanticism, of belonging, between the antiquity and the modernity and a purposeful documentation of today’s contrasting world of the old and new worlds.
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His training as an architect plays an integral part in his depiction of landscapes and sceneries. Combining the ideals of architecture and paintings, his works marries the formalistic aspects of drawing with a freer hand of the brush, resulting in a dynamic expression of the spontaneous and the controlled.
The proficient use of perspective, in the use of lines of variable intensity and the play between light and dark to create blankets of shadows lends a three dimensional appearance in his work. Scenes bathed in the stark morning light give prominence to colour and space.
This two year collection will showcase watercolours and ink sketches, recording his encounters and experiences in his recent travels, his workings in quiet reflection of his surroundings in enchanted spaces, of the people and places that have inspired him.
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