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About the artwork
n this painting, the artist takes a deliberate approach in depicting a natural landscape through traditional Chinese painting techniques. The subtle brushstrokes, expressive textures, and rhythmic movements are all harmoniously aligned with the central concept of portraying nature. Ink, as a medium, is ever-changing in texture, form, and depth — its fluidity and rich historical significance embody the passage of time and transformation within the artwork itself.
About the artist
Born in Singapore in 1972, Quek Kiat Sing uses ink as her weapon of revelation, committing every day sights into artistic memory and refurbishing them into poetic expressions of aesthetics. With work spanning subjects such as still life to the understated magnificence of nature’s flora and fauna, the artist has even covered nudes and human movement as celebrations of the complex ethereal beauty present in the most simple of representations. Conceptually, the artist’s work is intricately multifaceted; apart from turning the mundane into a celebration of deserved highlights of beauty, the artist is also a staunch environmentalist, choosing her subjects not only for their understated beauty but for their forgotten relevance in the modern world, where nature is often overlooked in the rush for development. Seeking to speak out to her generation and beyond, the artist instigates an awareness with her works, imprinting onto the viewer’s mind the importance of their overlooked counterparts in the world today.