Loving the art and the artist
By Ooi Kok Chuen
October 2015 PENANG PALETTE
Not all marriages are made in heaven.For nuptials between artists, some may well start on the canvas, or off it. But they are more likely to first meet in circumstances connected to art, rather than at a diamond exhibition or food outlet. Love for them often happens at first brushstroke!Yet, having two artists in the house, what with the fable about their mercurial moods and temperament, is often deemed ill advised. Imagine two famished tigers on a night hunt. To...
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.
