Low Puay Hua
BORN: 1945
HOMETOWN: SINGAPORE
LIVES AND WORKS: SINGAPORE
Low Puay Hua’s enduring art career spans across an overwhelming 4 decades. It is distinguished by an elective range of interests in diverse directions: in landscape paintings which fortify his discipline, in streetscape paintings which enhance his understanding of local ethos, in contemporary Chinese ink paintings which revitalizes centuries-old traditions, and in abstract art for its potential in artistic innovation.
He also loves to travel and has visited parts of South-East Asia, Far East and Europe. To him, his travels offer precious opportunities to accumulate visual experiences and insights which strengthen his artistic endeavours: sketching and painting on location to sharpen direct responses to diverse atmospheric lights, and the interaction with the fascinating, often exotic, cultural intricacies.