Three artists – Lip Pak Song, Chan Yin Lam and Chan Chiang I Leng – are displaying their works at the “Three Hearts and One Mind Sketch Exhibition” in Room B07 of the 10 Fantasia gallery.
According to a 10 Fantasia statement, the three “Sketching Macau” artists hope to share their experiences from painting lessons. The statement said that the lessons comprise “to learn from the process rather than the result, to overcome the trap of failure and self-criticism, to continue to study hard, [and] to feel the joy of creating [works of art] by wandering through life”.
The statement said that Lip is from Xinhui, Guangdong province, and settled in Macau in 1962. He was sent to Singapore by Mandarin Oriental in 1986 to join an an international ice-carving competition and won a bronze medal. The statement added that he later joined Hotel Lisboa’s “Portas do Sol” and continued to work on ice sculptures, butter sculpture, and vegetable and fruit carving. He enrolled in the “Seniors Academy, Macao Polytechnic University” after retiring in 2014 “to rejoice in the fun of painting” and later joined “Urban Sketchers Macao” in 2018.
Chan, whose real name is Yin Chu, was born in Vietnam in the early 1970s, according to the statement. Chan studied with well-known watercolour painter Kam Cheong Ling for over three years, but stopped painting for over 40 years.
Upon retiring, she remembered her mentor’s teachings and was encouraged by another mentor to come back to painting. It was suggested she join “Urban Sketchers Macao” due to her interest in painting and later became a Macau Artist Society member, the statement pointed out.
Macau-born Chan Chiang I Leng worked in clerical and administrative work for over 20 years and has a great interest in “Reading and Aesthetics”. Having studied painting since mid-2018, she met Chan Yin Lam during a watercolour course and to join “Urban Sketchers Macao” was recommended to her in 2019. The statement added that she started painting outdoors after being encouraged by her fellow painters “and was humble enough to learn from her own shortcomings”.
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These images recently provided by the 10 Fantasia gallery show the works of the three artists and a poster of the exhibition.
