About the show

Artplus Gallery collaborates with Cape of Good Hope Art Gallery to present a show highlighting oil paintings by four local artists born between the 1930s and 1940s.

Beautiful paintings of the bustling Singapore River by Lee Boon Wang, depictions of hawkers plying their trade at Chinatown by Choo Keng Kwang, a rare illustration of the lotus pond by Tan Choh Tee and portraits of Bali dancers by Koeh Sia Yong would be on display.

Exhibition location

Cape of Good Hope Art Gallery
Bras Basah Complex #03-17 S(180231)

展览地址 -
好望角画廊
百胜楼 #03-17 S(180231)

Background
1990 The 9th Painting Of The Year Highly Commended
2002 Singapore Art Society - Dr Tan Tsze Chor Art Awards
Chinese Ink Painting Open Competition 1st Prize
2013 Singapore Art Society - Dr Tan Tsze Chor Art Awards
Chinese Ink Painting Open Competition 1st Prize

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1989 “New York” One Man Exhibition
(Art Base Gallery Singapore)
1990 “Tung Yue Nang At The Hyatt”
Art Exhibition
(Singapore)
2000 “Heaven On Earth” The Bali Sojourn
(Paragon Singapore)

Selected Group Exhibitions
1994 “Singapore Artists Speak 2” Art Exhibition
1996 25th Anniversary - Preservation Of Monuments
Board Art Exhibition
2001 “Pulp Fiction” - Materials in Contemporary Art
Singapore Art Museum
2002 Creative Calligraphy Grand Exhibition 2002
- ARTrium MITA

Selected Collections
CPF Board
Beaufort Sentosa Singapore
Mt. Elizabeth Hospital
Development Bank of Singapore

Background
1962 Teenage years, Swee Leng studied
Chinese brush painting under Lingdong Master
FanChang Tien
1966 Graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine
Arts, Singapore.
- Learnt under renowned Artist Master Shi Xiang Tuo
- Founded Molan Art Association with other artists
and has been actively involved in art activities
locally and abroad since
- Appointed committee member of the Society of
Chinese Artists up to year 1992
1999 Published his dedicated Art book, The Art of
Nai Swee Leng.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1985 Solo Art Exhibition at the National Museum,
Singapore
1992 Solo Art Exhibiyion at the Cherries Art Gallery,
Singapore
1999 Solo Art Exhibition in Singapore
2007 Solo Art Exhibition in Jakarta, Indonesia

Selected Group Exhibitions
1979 Joint exhibition with Wan Soon Kam, Ang Ah Tee,
Ong Kim Seng in Bahrain and various locations in the
Middle East
2000 Singapore and New York 10 Masters Art Exhibition
- F.I.T.M.A. Exhibition Taiwan
2010 Art Exhibition in Shanghai, China, to celebrate the
20th Anniversary of establishment in diplomatic ties
between Singapore and China

Beauty of Summer
Ink on rice paper
138x35cm
2020

Autumnal Procession
Ink on rice paper
136x34cm
1996

LIM TZE PENG 林子平

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1921, Singapore

Background
1970 Turned his focus from oil to ink painting
1981 National Day Award (PBM), Singapore
2003 Cultural Medallion, Singapore
2016 Meritorious Service Medal, Singapore

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1970 Held his first solo exhibition
1991 Second Solo Exhibition, National Museum Art Gallery
2008 Inroads: Lim Tze Peng’s New Ink Works,
Art Retreat Museum, Singapore

Selected Collections
2010 My Kampong My Home, Singapore Management
University
2014 Opening of the Lim Tze Peng Art Gallery in
Chung Cheng High School