In Boulevard Taipei, Pooi Yip shows the daily life of the bustling city with lively strokes to convey a sense of fleeting movement. The scene is enlivened with delightful details: tall building structures and people in motion. An elegant palette of delicate colours was used to portray the cityscape, infused with a warm light that gently illuminates the streets and crowd. Born in Penang, Cheung Pooi Yip moved to Sungai Petani to take care of the family frame-shop business, which was only good to get by. But he keeps up a disciplined regime of painting, exploring and experimenting with techniques in his studio and has become known for his patterned dry brush strokes with parallel lines as forms in the 1980s, and with later use of palette knives. His favourite angle is the aerial or angled perspective. Though he delved mostly into abstracts, his earliest works were of squat figures typical of the time. In 1981, he won 1st Prize in the Bata national art competition. In later years, Pooi Yip enjoyed going on painting trips with his groups of artists friends in Europe and Asia, with his wife in tow.