Wang Fei
BORN: 1972
HOMETOWN: BEIJING, CHINA
LIVES AND WORKS: SINGAPORE
Wang Fei is an artist from Beijing who specialises in oil paintings and Chinese calligraphy. Currently residing in Singapore, his blend of cross culture-inspired artworks are collected by celebrities as well as people from all walks of life. After graduating from the prestigious Beijing Art & Design School in 1989, the artist moved to Singapore in 1995, where he obtained another Diploma from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1998. He was then awarded with Dr Tan Tsze Chor Award in 2014. Mr. Wang Fei has showcased his oil painting artworks in Singapore through various solo exhibitions. For over a decade, he has worked in the local commercial design scene, starting a corporate career as a designer and eventually becoming Creative Director.
Wang Fei specialises in oil painting and utilises his skills to paint many beautiful sceneries of Singapore. He uses the combination of bright colours and wide brushstrokes to form the shape of buildings. This art technique is especially prominent in his ‘Malay Kampong’ and ‘Shop House’ paintings where the usage of various colours painted with wide, short strokes flatter one another and blend together exquisitely. He also paints realistic art pieces with cleaner brushstrokes, thinner lines and controlled blending between colours to create the refractions of light in lakes for ‘Clarke Quay’, ‘Cavenagh Bridge’ and ‘Little Guilin’ artworks as well as the reflections of the sky in his ‘Marina Bay Sands Singapore’ masterpiece.