TAN AI NGIN
Backyards and Botanics
solo oil painting show by TAN AI NGIN
Wednesday 19th January 2005 7 pm
Utterly Art Exhibition Space
208 South Bridge Road 2nd Level, Singapore 058757
Tel: 6226 2605
Mon-Sat 11.30 am - 8 pm Sun 12 noon - 5.30 pm
The exhibition runs till Sunday 30th Jan 2005
“…by the blue purple yellow red water
On the green purple yellow red grass
Let us pass through our perfect park.”
- From Sunday in
Sunday in the Park with George
by Stephen Sondheim
A firm proponent of plein-air painting, artist Tan Ai Ngin takes to the
Singaporean outdoors with gusto, quickly capturing her verdant vistas with
dexterous economy. Like the Impressionists before her, Ai Ngin builds up her
sceneries with short strokes of a mix of bright colours, giving us her
impression of the subtly-changing heat, light, colour and shadows that play
before her eyes. In the past three years of building this collection, Ai Ngin
has gravitated naturally to the lush botanical environments of the Singapore
Botanic Gardens, the nurseries of Mandai Orchid Gardens and Orchidville, and the
sunny backyards of her adopted home in Tiong Bahru. In Ai Ngin’s hidden green
oases, one discovers not just rich tropical colour, but a certain static
serenity arising from lazy afternoons where the scorching sun has driven almost
everyone else indoors.