Works · by subject
Subjects
Four groups, each carrying its own pigment through the site: Penang and harbour in golden hour, the fishing villages and sea in harbour teal, rural life and nature in padi sage, festivals and figures in seal red.
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Penang and harbour life
25 works
Piers, quays, temple courtyards, riverbanks and old town streets, the built memory of Penang in warm light.
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Fishing villages and the sea
57 works
Boats returning with the catch, stilt houses, nets and difficult water: paintings of work made from long observation of the shoreline.
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Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature
129 works
Padi fields and farm mornings alongside the inherited symbols of doves, carp, lotus and roosters, Chinese auspicious subjects carried into oil.
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Festivals, figures and community
37 works
Lion dances, dancers, the breaking of fast, durian eaten in company: plural Malaysian life given the same warmth of attention.