Painting for Peace

By Ooi Kok Chuen

January 2018 PENANG PALETTE
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Myanmar’s golden stupas and scenic countryside are an inspiration for watercolors.During end November-early December 2017, Myanmar’s International Watercolor Society (IWS) set about a trial run for its 2019 fully international programme of a global watercolour phenomenon which saw the biggest gathering of artists practising watercolour in the name of peace and art.IWS Myanmar’s end of 2017 programme incorporated its second annual exhibition with a solo by Atanur Dogan, the flamboyant IWS global president, with his humanist paintings, and a demonstration...

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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.


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