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Lim Siang Jin

Lim Siang Jin

How the Covid-19 pandemic propelled a 69-year-old to paint again... after a three-decade hiatus

How the Covid-19 pandemic propelled a 69-year-old to paint again... after a three-decade hiatus

By Kenny Mah, The Malay Mail KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20, 2022 — In “Running Off”, a 2020 painting by former pressman turned artist Lim Siang Jin, the viewer detects a buoyancy and unassuming ache for life. The colours could have come from a children’s picture book yet the peppering of

Back to black

Back to black

IN MY “Fear and Hope in Covid Times”, when I was sliding towards negativity again, I felt a desperate need to check myself. Two ways of breaking a trend, I thought, was to go blank or go black. I decided on the latter. Exhibited at Restart 2020: Continuation & Change

Evocative durian, mystifying durian

Evocative durian, mystifying durian

I HAVE always wanted to illustrate something on the “king of fruit” but never found the right mood or opportunity to do so. In early 2022, a chance discovery that a former colleague was making a documentary on a gamut of matters surrounding the fruit gave me the spark to

Scions of Bacchus

Scions of Bacchus

PLACES that serve alcohol are a paradise for discovery – of people’s character, their secrets and fantasies. They are the regular haunts of boasters, fun seekers, sorrow drowners, even journalists and spies and their sources. Scions of Bacchus is an attempt by me to interpret in a small way the

Unconnected?

Unconnected?

IN THIS SERIES, I assemble seemingly unconnected but related shapes in two or three visual perspectives so that they can be seen differently if you focus on each part. Exhibited at Restart 2020: Continuation & Change — October 2022. Click here From a distance, you see a piece of art using

Colours again, in the analog-digital realm

Colours again, in the analog-digital realm

WHEN I WENT “back to black” (B2B), it was never my intention to abandon colour; it was an “active” pause to re-evaluate where I was headed. And then to move on quickly. I decided that I would examine different media, specifically how to combine analog with digital. Exhibited at Restart

Fear and hope in Covid times

Fear and hope in Covid times

FEAR & HOPE was an unplanned piece, at least in its details and the emotive developments around it. I had been dissatisfied with “Yikes” in the Adventures with Acrylics series. However, knowing its potential, especially with more sophisticated treatment, I decided to repaint it as a much larger piece on