Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Blue Planet by watercolourist Yeap Tho Seng


The underwater heritage series II, 2003, watercolour, 76x114cm.

Yeap Tho Seng is having a solo show entitled the Blue Planet at the NN Gallery till Jan 24.

This self-taught watercolour artist is featuring a collection of works focussing on the rich marine life.

The works also reflected his understanding of marine biology, culled from his 34 years of working as the resident artist at the Penang Fisheries Research Institute.

4 comments:

watergirl said...

This guy reminds me of Ajis the marine painter. Great posting!

Swee said...

Indeed, Ajis Mohamed paints the sea with much passion. I have mentioned his work in earlier posts. His realistic depiction of marine life is much sought after and I think he is one of the leading marine artists Malaysia now has.

Artyfax said...

Beautiful watercolour and you can feel the passion

Anonymous said...

ok only la. what so much fuss?