Lot 025
Yong Look Lam
b. Selangor, 1962
Kuala Terengganu, 2007
signed and dated (lower right)
watercolour on paper
56 x 76cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Selangor
ESTIMATE RM 5,000 – 9,000
PRICE REALISED RM 5,600.00
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Yong Look Lam explores traditional work culture around fishing boats and stilt-house villages apart from the architectural heritage of pre-War buildings. His watercolour strokes and colours have vastly improved in the past decade, and it was not surprising when he was adjudged 2nd runner-up in the prestigious Malaysia UOB Painting of the Year in 2011 besides 2nd Prize in the Malaysian Landscape art competition organised jointly by the National Art Gallery and Public Finance in 1984. He was also one of the three major winners of the Malaysian Watercolour Society (MWS) Awards in 1987. He was a founding member of the MWS. He is the president of the Negeri Sembilan Art Society (founded in 1965) and manager of the Willow Art Centre in Seremban. He received a double Diploma from the Kuala Lumpur College of Art, of Painting in 1982 and Watercolour in 1983. |