Chin Chun Wah

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About the artwork

The historically-rich Fullerton Hotel is captured in this painting in Chin Chun Wah's signature style, done using a mixture of marker pens and watercolour. Formally called the Fullerton Building, it was previously home to the General Post Office and was even used as a hospital as well as the headquarters of the Japanese military administration in Singapore, during World War II. It was finally converted to a hotel in 1997, when a developer bought over the building and begin renovations. The Fullerton Hotel officially opened on 1 January 2001.

About the artist

Chin Chun Wah was a founding member of the Singapore Watercolour Society in 1969 and a budding artist that lead several art groups here in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for his sketches in pen and wash - a painting technique using marker pens and watercolours to depict scenes with light, deft strokes rendered within minutes. After graduating, he worked briefly at the former Radio and Television, Singapore, the Culture Ministry, as well as the Housing and Development Board as an artist and designer. He gave up painting when he joined developer Far East Organization as its advertising manager in 1977. He won first prize in the Parks and Recreation's logo design competition and a year earlier in 1976, attained the third prize in an art competition organized by OCBC Bank in conjunction with the completion of its skyscraper in Chulia Street. He retired from Far East in 1999 and became an avid golfer.