Reserved for Exhibition
Acrylic on canvas 60 cm x 60 cm 2022 Notes: An abstraction expressing the need for harmony for peaceful co-existence. This harmony is not just the absence of external unrest but calls for the inner serenity of mind, body and soul.
Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm 2021 Notes: An abstraction. The first in a new INFINITY Series. As a wise monk once said one cannot use the finite to define the Infinite.
Acrylic on canvas 40 inches x 40 inches 2021 Notes: An abstraction from the new series: LIFE. This expression reminds us of the need for balance. How essential balance is for well being and inner peace.
Mixed media on canvas 36 inches x 36 inches 2021 Notes: From The Energy Series: The First Quartet.
Mixed media on canvas 36 inches x 36 inches 2021 Notes: From The Energy Series: The First Quartet.
Mixed media on canvas 36 inches x 36 inches 2021 Notes: From The Energy Series: The First Quartet.
Mixed media on canvas 36 inches x 36 inches 2021 Notes: From The Energy Series: The First Quartet.
Paintings Available for Sale
Acrylic on canvas 76 cm x 100 cm 2022
Collage/mixed media on canvas 30 cm x 20 cm 2022 Notes: Celebrating life, that like the beautiful sakura, blossoms for only a short period. The fragility and impermanence of life. Wherein only love can give true meaning and purpose.
Acrylic & ink on canvas 34 cm x 64.5 cm 13.5 inches x 25.5 inches 2022 Notes: For International Women’s Day 8th March 2022. On loose canvas.
Mixed media on canvas 183cm x 152 cm 2021 Notes: Semi abstraction. A work that took months to complete: it is the forerunner of what the artist hopes will be her DREAM SERIES.
Acrylic on linen 26.5 inches x 24 inches 70 cm x 60 cm 2021 Notes: An abstraction. Inspired by an old saying: "As above, so below."
Acrylic on canvas 40 inches x 40 inches 100 cm x 100 cm 2021 Notes: An abstraction celebrating Life. It may come with its fair share of disappointments, but there’s still more to be thankful for, than to complain about. To recognise the Joy of Life.
Acrylic & ink on canvas 24 inches x 24 inches 60 cm x 60 cm 2021 Notes: From the series Art with A Message. Marrying words with images. Art to ponder upon; perhaps even provoke.
Mixed media on canvas 60 cm x 60 cm 2022 Notes: Painted for International Women’s Day (8 March). Honoring the first woman and the coming into being of womanhood. The creation of woman.
Mixed media on canvas 20 inches x 21 inches Painted especially for International Women’s Day 2021 for campaign for breast cancer victims by International Art Acts organisation.
Acrylic on canvas 12 inches x 12 inches 2021 Notes: An abstraction of an expression of peace. With the word peace in Mandarin, Sanskrit and Arabic.
Acrylic on canvas 12 inches x 12 inches 2021 Notes: Painted for International Artist Day, 25th October 2021
Ink & acrylic on canvas 24 inches x 24 inches 2020 Notes: The third in the Metamorphosis series. Making changes. With flowers symbolising the growth and maturity that comes through transformation.
Collage/mixed media on canvas 60 inches x 48 inches 152 cm x 122 cm 2021 Notes: An abstraction. In Singapore, a lockdown in view of the pandemic is called a Circuit Breaker.
Mixed media on linen 18 inches x 18 inches 2021 Notes: An abstraction. What goes on within the mind? Behind the smiles, behind the silence, behind the fears.
Mixed media on 2 canvases Round canvas: diameter 8 inches Mounted on stretched canvas sized 12 inches x 36 inches 2021 Notes: An abstraction acknowledging and honoring our inner world.
Mixed media on wood 50 cm x 50 cm 2020 Notes: An abstraction.
Collage/mixed media on wood 60 cm x 60 cm 2020 Notes: A tribute to the elements that should be respected at all times. One of two new works inspired by the fundraising project of ACCES to support the typhoon victims of the Philippines.
Mixed media on canvas panel 20 inches x 30 inches 50 cm x 76 cm 2021 Notes: an abstraction inspired by an international project Earthling Two.
Collage/Mixed media on framed canvas panel 16 inches x 12 inches 2021 Notes: A pair of earrings by Mario Valentino has been collaged in this work: an angel and a little devil: denoting the choices we have to make everyday of our lives.
Mixed media on canvas 140cm x 100cm 55 inches x 40 inches 2020 Notes: An abstraction inspired by the opera La Boheme.
Acrylic on sandpaper 20 inches x 26 inches 2021 Notes: The start of something new. The constant need to refortify, restrategise. The welcoming of new beginnings. The process of becoming.
Acrylic, ink & oil on round canvas Diameter: 16 inches 2021 Notes: Inspired by the Cherry Blossoms of Japan, a pink tree heralds the dawning of the season of Spring. This is the first tree in this series dedicated to the four seasons.
Acrylic, ink & oil on round canvas Diameter: 16 inches 2021 Notes: A sumptuous tree in the height of Summer, thick in foliage, and dressed in verdant green.
Acrylic, ink & oil on round canvas Diameter: 16 inches 2021 Notes: Inspired by momiji, those miniature maple leaves of Japan, the third tree in this series of mandalas honoring the four seasons, bursts in rich tones of reds, so typical of the autumnal foliage.
Acrylic, ink & oil on round canvas Diameter: 16 inches 2021 Notes: The circle comes into the stillness of winter, a season to go inward and take stock. Colors are predominantly blue, synonymous with tranquility and healing.
Mixed media on canvas 18 inches x 18 inches 2021 Notes: Inspired by the grandeur and colors of the Maharani during the days of the Raj in India.
Mixed media on canvas 24 inches x 48 inches 2021 Notes: An abstraction. Capturing the essence of spirit.
Collage, Acrylic & Resin on wood 10 inches x 12 inches 2021 Notes: An abstraction
Mixed media on canvas 27 inches x 35 inches 2018/2020 Notes: An abstraction pondering transcending the intellect. Taking things from form to the formless. The work began in 2018 but was only completed two years later.
Collage & Acrylic on canvas 18 inches x 24 inches 2018 Note: Abstraction. Of hidden secrets and wonderful stories. Let the painting take you on a journey of fantasy.
Acrylic on canvas 61 inches x 55.5 inches Year completed: 2017 Notes: A plethora of colors burst out in a splash suggesting the presence of abundance. Not just of the material kind but that of the flowering of consciousness.
Oil & Acrylic on canvas Each panel: 48 inches x 24 inches Year completed: 2016 Notes: A painting comprising three panels. A symbol of auspiciousness for the Chinese, dragons were often believed to be associated with water. In ancient China, dragons were said to be rain-makers.
Collage & acrylic on canvas 36 inches x 24 inches 2021 AVAILABLE AT MONAT GALLERY, MADRID,SPAIN. www.monatgallery.com
Acrylic on canvas 36 inches x 24 inches 2021 AVAILABLE AT MONAT GALLERY, MADRID, SPAIN. www.monatgallery.com
Mixed media on canvas 40 inches x 40 inches 2021 AVAILABLE AT MONAT GALLERY, MADRID, SPAIN. www.monatgallery.com
Acrylic on canvas 40 inches x 40 inches 2021 AVAILABLE AT MONAT GALLERY, MADRID, SPAIN. www.monatgallery.com
Mixed media on canvas panel 16 inches x 20 inches 40 cm x 50 cm 2021 Notes: An abstraction expressing cosmic energy in welcoming the lunar new year.
Collage/mixed media on canvas panel 24 inches x 20 inches 2020 Notes: An abstraction.
Oil on canvas 24 inches x 20 inches 2016/2020 Notes: Work began in 2016 but this abstraction was only released for sale in October 2020. Somehow it just did not feel right to put it on the market before? I still do not know why?
Acrylic on canvas 63 inches x 85 inches 2019 Notes: In a plethora of rich and vibrant colors, here’s an abstraction romancing the days of Marco Polo at the Imperial court of China. Cathay was the alternative historical name in English for the China of long ago.
Mixed media on round canvas Diameter: 16 inches 2020 Notes: An abstraction inspired by the many changes in the world; more so today than ever before. These changes range from external climatic changes to changes in the terrain of one’s ‘inner city’. The one thing we can be certain of is change.
Collage & mixed media on canvas 16 inches x 20 inches 2020 (Collaboration with the late Martin Fu)
Oil on canvas 18 inches x 36 inches 45 cm x 90 cm 2019
Acrylic on canvas 24 inches x 48 inches 2019 Notes: An abstraction expressing the artist’s concept of endless time and infinite space.
(Yet The Dragon Never Dies) Acrylic on canvas 65 inches x 70 inches 165 cm x 177 cm Year completed: 2018 Notes: A reminder that even the strong and the powerful must meet its end. But then, isn’t the dragon mythical? And hence, indestructible?
Acrylic on canvas 12 inches x 12 inches 2019 (Melbourne) Notes: An abstraction inspired by the late Mother Teresa.
Acrylic on canvas 53 inches x 67 inches 2019 Notes: An abstraction. Colors bright and vibrant invoking images of a dance of joy.
Collage/Mixed Media on canvas 24 inches x 48 inches 2018 Notes: An abstraction in salutation of time. Like the tides, time waits for no man. Undeniably time inevitably fascinates.
Acrylic on canvas 24 inches x 28 inches 2017 Notes: The artist has always been intrigued with the colors, shapes and forms of the mysterious Cosmos. Inspired by the gogyoshi of Taro Aizu, a new series celebrating The Cosmos has been born.
Acrylic on canvas 24 inches x 28 inches 2017 Notes: An abstraction expressing the colors and energy of the Milky Way.
Acrylic on canvas 24 inches x 28 inches 2017 Notes: The fascination of the galaxy continues, as the imagination shoots for the stars.
Mixed Media on canvas 24 inches x 48 inches 2018 Notes: An abstraction honouring Mother Moon. The moon has certainly inspired many a poet, writer, music composer and artist from time immemorial. And it will continue to do so, for all eternity.
Acrylic on cloth 19.5 inches x 15.5 inches 2018 Notes: From the series Nuns, Novices and Men of The Cloth. A lone figure sits in the practice (sadhana in the sanskrit) of meditation.
Acrylic on canvas 60 inches x 48 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: Brilliant hues color the domain. It is a place of freedom. Of Celebration. And of joy. A bodhisattva sits upon the branch of a tree. Below giant wild lotuses burst into view.
Oil on canvas 18 inches x 18 inches 2013 Notes: From the artist’s Mother Series. Isn’t bliss what we are truly after? Yet many do not know what is bliss or joy, and often confuse this with mere pleasures.
Acrylic on printed canvas 11.5 inches x 19.5 inches 2018 Notes: From the Nuns, Novices and Men of The Cloth series. Printed on the canvas are the 100 Blessings, wherein the auspicious FU character is written in 100 different scripts from ancient China.
Mixed Media on oval canvas MaximumHeight: 14 inches Maximum Width: 20 inches 2018 Notes: From the Nuns, Novices & Men of The Cloth Series. The artist just happens to love monks.
Acrylic on round canvas Diameter: 16 inches 2018 Notes: From the series Nuns, Novices and Men of The Cloth.
Acrylic on canvas 50 inches x 58 inches 127 cm x 147 cm 2018 Notes: An abstraction of heighten energy synonymous with the pleasures of a fun filled carnival.
Oil on canvas 24 inches x 24 inches 2018 Notes: An abstraction.
Acrylic & Oil on canvas 24 inches x 36 inches 2018 Notes: An abstraction of the bamboo. A symbol of peace, the bamboo is known for its strength and flexibility. It can bend in the face of strong gushing winds, yet it will not snap. Bamboo can teach us important lessons in life.
(The Peranakan Long Table) Mixed Media on canvas Two paintings attached to each other. Maximum height: 48 inches Maximum width: 30 inches Year completed: 2018 Notes: The Tok Panjang is a table laden with gastronomical delights served during Peranakan festivities and celebrations. Peranakan is term describing Straits born Chinese.
Mixed media on canvas 16 inches x 20 inches Year completed: 2016 (Melbourne) Notes: In the Australian aboriginal language, Endota, means ‘beautiful’. And the lotus, a symbol of peace, and spiritual unfoldment, is indeed a very beautiful flower, that has a great deal to teach us.
Mixed media on canvas 24 inches x 18 inches 2018 Notes: Expressing happy times, and cherished memories. The colors are bright. Bold brushstrokes suggest upliftment, vibrance, an energy of positiveness. A sense of aliveness and buoyancy prevails.
Acrylic & ink on canvas 12 inches x 12 inches 2018 (Melbourne Collection) Notes: The black circle is the enzo. Rendered in a single brushstroke and in one slow complete breath. Part of Zenga, the Japanese art of Zen.
Mixed media on canvas 20 inches x 20 inches 2017 (Melbourne) Notes: A time to hibernate, to go inwards and contemplate as temperatures drop and days become shorter.
Ink and Acrylic on paper 22 inches x 30 inches Year completed: 2016 Notes: Going within and connecting with my inner fire. The mood is heightened. Energy gathers into a fireball of passion. I got to just let it out. It cannot be contained any longer.
Ink and acrylic on paper 22 inches x 30 inches Year completed: 2016 Notes: Strength is one thing that we always need. Not just physical strength, but mental, emotional and spiritual strength. At times when life serves a platter of dramas for us to contend with, often brute strength is not enough. We need inner strength, that comes from various ways and through different means, be it through prayer, meditation, religious study, or service to the community.
Artist's Collection Bronze sculpture Height: 13 inches. Maximum Width: 12 inches Year completed: 2013 Notes: Celebrating The Mother Series, two sculptures were made in solid bronze, each weighing 18 kilos. This is the first piece, and shows the woman arising from a lotus, a flower synonymous with one’s spiritual development. The woman spots a wild, flowing mane, depicting a very strong energy body.
Collage & acrylic on canvas 28 inches x 61.5 inches Year completed: 2014 Notes: A boddhisattva rides the The Flow of life. It has been wisely said that all we have to do is to get into The Flow. Because once you are in The Flow, that Flow will support you.
Collage in acrylic and ink on canvas Diameter: 12 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: All too often, on earth, money talks with the loudest voice. Imagination ferries the viewer into the treasury of the Gods, where one is simply at a loss for words at the richness of the Heavens.
Collage & acrylic on canvas 30 inches x 24 inches Year completed: 2014 Notes: A novel painting that can be displayed either vertically or horizontally, as stupas point two options for directions. A collage using stupas from Tibetan prayer flags.
Oil on canvas 24 inches x 30 inches Year completed: 2013 Notes: Indeed a very popular Hindu deity, Ganesha is hailed as a god of wisdom and good fortune. Said to be the remover of obstacles, he is particularly worshipped by the merchant community, as the bringer of good luck in business ventures. His vehicle is the mouse.
Oil on canvas 20 inches x 24 inches Year completed: 2012 Notes: A contemporary Ganesha, the Hindu deity renowned as the remover of obstacles. Blue, a color synonymous with calmness, tranquility and healing predominates.
Acrylic & Ink on canvas 18 inches x 24 inches Year completed: 2016 Notes: It is time for play. The blocks and squares symbolise the many blockages we experience in life. Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, moves these blocks, and catches his vehicle, the scampering mouse. The message here is also to take ourselves less seriously, and lighten the loads we tend to carry in our minds.
Acrylic on canvas 12 inches x 12 inches 30 cm x 30 cm 2014 (released in 2021 for an online Ganesha art festival and exhibition)
Acrylic on canvas 24 inches x 24 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: All things in creation are but swirls of moving energy. Moving forces, dancing within and without. Currents and waves in the ever changing ocean of life. The painting was inspired by the words of William Blake, who once declared that "Energy is eternal delight. Energy is the ONLY life."
Acrylic on canvas 13 inches x 13 inches Year completed: 2017 Notes: We live in the world of maya: of illusions. Maya is often represented by water. And here we have waves, denoting the ever changing patterns of the mind.
Acrylic & ink on canvas A collection of 3 paintings: 24 inches x 24 inches, and two smaller paintings, each sized 11.5 inches x 11.5 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: One of the most amazing possessions we have is our minds. One can imagine what existence would be like without the mind. The energy of the mind is astonishing and when keenly aware and alert, is at its most passionate. Such a mind can proceed to accomplish what might seem the impossible. It can take us to great heights.
Acrylic & ink on canvas 18 inches x 18 inches Year completed: 2015 (Melbourne) Notes: Waves of colors are believed to signify spiritual energy. As light is energy, and color is light, color is indeed energy. In the Genesis, we read of that very first command: Let there be light. Hence, the declaration of let there be energy, leading to the creation of the fabulous, surprising, and oftentimes unpredictable mind.
Acrylic on canvas 18 inches x 36 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: Mountains often feature in wave like formations. Undulating stretches of highlands rolling on and on, in the countryside. Mountains have always been considered to be the sacred abodes of the Gods, and are believed to be the meeting place between heaven and earth. Mountains symbolise strength, and teaches us to set our minds and our hearts on our highest goals.
Acrylic on canvas 30 inches x 30 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: Waves hold tremendous power of massive inertia. And ancient beliefs have compared waves caused by storms to the arousing of dragons, living in the depths of the seas. Waves, in such instances, also symbolise sudden inroads of the unconscious, when instinctive impulses to attack the spirit are spurred.
Acrylic on canvas 55 inches x 67 inches 140 cm x 170 cm 2019 Notes: Celebrating the vibrant colors synonymous with the festive season of the Chinese lunar new year.
Collage in acrylic and oil on wood 17.5 inches x 23.5 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: Traditionally, the Japanese torii, or gateway, marks the entrance to a shrine, from the profane and into the space of the sacred. There are no doors on a torii, and the popular interpretation of this absence, is said to be a sign of the perpetual openness of the shrine. As the old meets the new, the lucky cat, a popular icon of the Land of the Rising Sun, stands sentinel, playing gatekeeper.
Acrylic & oil on canvas 26 inches x 30.5 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: Honouring the enzo, which in the Japanese means ‘a circle’. Traditionally, the enzo is rendered in one brushstroke, in one single breath, and forms a meditation amongst practitioners of Zen art. In this instance, the enzo, takes centrestage, in a field of vibrant colors, holding the many precious wisdoms of life.
Acrylic & 0il on canvas 40 inches x 40 inches 2017 Notes: An abstraction celebrating the mythical phoenix. Legends tell of how this fabled bird burnt itself, only to rise again from its ashes, in splendour. The phoenix is an auspicious symbol for many Asian cultures.
Acrylic on canvas 61 inches x 81 inches 2017 Notes: An abstraction of a popular symbol of prosperity and power for many Asian traditions, the dragon continues to fascinate.
Acrylic on canvas 40 inches x 40 inches 2017 Notes: The artist has always been fascinated by trees n honours these gifts of Mother Nature on canvas.
Acrylic on canvas 12 inches x 12 inches 2017 (Melbourne) Notes: From the Dance Series, Tango celebrates the mystique of this exhilarating dance.
Collage with acrylic on canvas 20 inches x 20 inches 2017 (Melbourne) Notes: There are no limits to love. We all need love and so do all living beings & things on this planet. Do not be afraid to love.
Acrylic on canvas 12 inches by 12 inches 2017 (Melbourne) Notes: Abstract of brilliant hues of an exhuberant dance.
Acrylic on canvas 48 inches x 48 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: There’s always a great deal going on in the crucible of life. The fires of purification are aglow with heat being generated in the process. The mood is vibrant as fears get burnt away.
Acrylic & Oil on canvas 58.5 inches x 41 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: A profusion of pink flowers, reminiscent of sakura, the cherry blossoms of Japan, take pride of place in the artist's Dream Garden. This is her place for Lila, or play, and inspiration.
Oil & acrylic on canvas 18 inches x 24 inches Year completed: 2016 (Melbourne) Notes: In The Talmud, it is written that “The dream is its own interpretation.” Indeed, dreams are perhaps the other side of our waking life. Like myths, claimed Erich Fromm, “ dreams offer vital communications from ourselves to ourselves.”
Acrylic on canvas 32 inches x 32 inches Year completed: 2016 Notes: Stars have often been associated with deities. Polynesians believe that stars are the eyes of heaven, observing happenings on earth, whilst the Chinese attest that stars directly affect the events on our planet. Very few things can rival the beauty of a star-filled sky, and through the ages, countless poets, artists, and music lovers have continued to romanticise the stars.
Ink on canvas 40 inches x 40 inches 100 cm x 100 cm Year completed: 2013 Notes: Believed to be the abode of the Gods, mountains represent strength and the power within the landscape. Indeed exuding quite a masculine energy. However, balance is at hand, ensured by the feminine presence of the spirit of the mountain. Huge flowers burst in jubilation across the sky, whilst below, the foliage is one of aliveness and abundance.
Collage in acrylic and oil on canvas 45 inches x 59.25 inches Year completed: 2016 Notes: Words of peace bless the depths of a garden pond. The time is sunset, and as the sun sinks beyond the horizon, we once again give thanks for abundance and peace.
Acrylic on canvas 36.5 inches x 76 inches Year completed: 2013 Notes: The bamboo is said to be a symbol of peace, and in ancient times, the Chinese believed that the phoenix, that mythical bird, fed exclusively on bamboo. Here, the evergreen bamboo is presented in red, with the latter color being synonymous with good luck, good fortune and auspiciousness, for the Chinese.
Acrylic on canvas 24 inches x 36 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: A celebration of the color Black. What is black to you? Is it a color of chic sophistication, of sleekness, and the fashion world? Or is it a negative color of darkness, and of death?Yet black, often pegged a non-color, really contains all the colors. Black is what it is to you.
Acrylic on canvas 24 inches x 36 inches Year completed: 2015 Notes: The twin painting in the Lifelines duo, but this time there are more hints of red, with a cheery yellow peeking out.