Paintings Timelessly Watered and Coloured
By Ooi Kok Chuen
July 2019 PENANG PALETTE
“He (Ong Kim Seng) is versatile in his use of colour, rhythm, and imagination; and there is freshness and vitality in his composition and technique, whether depicting the soaring clouds of the Himalayas, or the steaming tropics of the bay of Singapore.”– Dong Kingman, 1985(Top) First layer. Demonstration painting at the Taman Aman lake. (Bottom) Hey Presto! The finished painting.This is a priceless and inspiring encomium indeed, coming from the great watercolorist Dong Kingman (1911-2000). It was given during Kim Seng’s second meeting with Kingman in New...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
