Lim Siang Jin

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 & 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

TOWARDS THE END of 2020, I felt relieved that I could paint again. It freed me from the boredom of the lockdowns and I regained a much-needed sense of achievement and confidence. Based partly on the initial postcards I did in May, I began to venture into larger pieces of

THE YEARS 1989-91 were another watershed period for my art endeavours. Work at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia had picked up a bit and I had been thinking about leaving for some time now. Longer hours in the office and uncertainty about my own future took

IN 1988, I doodled on a piece of tracing paper with a 0.1 Rotring pen. A4 in size and called “Expressions”, I liked it very much, however, I did not pursue the idea any further. Exhibited at Restart 2020: Continuation & Change — October 2022. Click here Later on, I