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About the artwork
With the ochre wash enveloping the painting, Lim Tze Peng creates a sense of wanting to reminisce upon the golden days. He depicts a once common scene in the streets of Singapore - roadside shops selling various goods from fruits to trinkets, fronting the shophouses that line the back. One look at the scene, and even without any distinctive indication of the locality, viewers can still feel as if they know and have been in that place. Lim Tze Peng uses masterful brushstrokes that vary from thin lines to bold washes to encapsulate and immortalise the quickly disappearing scenes of Singapore in her quest for modernisation.
About the artist
Born in Singapore in 1921, Lim Tze Peng is one of Singapore’s most significant artists and a living legend. Renowned for his Chinese ink creations of post-independence Singapore, he also practices Chinese calligraphy. Alongside local and international exhibitions, his masterpieces are exhibited in prominent Singapore institutions and part of many prestigious collections. Lim has been bestowed several awards including the Special Prize at the Commonwealth Art Exhibition in England in 1977 and the prestigious Cultural Medallion in Singapore in 2003. In May 2012, he broke records with the sale of his works at a Christies auction in Hong Kong.