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About the artwork
Ong Kim Seng is able to organise complex scenery into a picturesque composition that is pleasing to the viewers’ eyes. Using a common bridge in a canal in Venice as a subject (instead of the grandiloquent Rialto Bridge), he transforms the piece into a detailed and lively painting. Canals were ancient waterways lined with buildings that were built from the 13th to 18th centuries and mostly constructed by wealthy Venetian families. Traffic that cruises down canals include private boats (as depicted), vaporetti or water buses and the popular gondolas.
About the artist
Born in 1945 in Singapore, Ong Kim Seng is an internationally renowned watercolorist and one of Singapore’s most prominent artistic icons. Self-taught and self-supported, the artist has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Singapore and in the United States, China, United Kingdom, Japan , Australia, Belgium, Germany, France, Middle East, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has won a multitude of awards including six awards from the American Watercolor Society, and the coveted Cultural Medallion in 1999. Playing an active part in some of the most prestigious art fellowships and organizations, the artist was President of the Singapore Watercolor Society from 1991 to 2001, subsequently becoming Honorary President.