Keng Wai Lee

Louise - contemporary mixed media colorful hummingbird flowers framed painting

2022

Keng Wai Lee is a painter trained to a high level. Keng Wai Lee’s gorgeously rich nature impressions are a synergy of decorative tableaux and depiction in paint on canvas of his memories and imagination. Moreover, his wonderful paintings are made up of birds and Goldfishes in flamboyant colors, making them decorative and figurative. He was inspired by these patterns during his childhood, as Keng Wai Lee had seven goldfishes and his father had a lot of chickens in the family garden. Animals are a part of the fairy tale, vegetable and coloured décor. In addition, the acrylic on canvas allows him to transpose the image in a precise manner, combining imagination and childhood memories. Keng Wai Lee says “Using acrylic as a medium, I tend to reminisce through my past getting inspiration to create my artwork. This may come from remembering all my scribbles in my textbooks/school books full of monsters and machines in a apocalyptic world. Or, just indulging in my hobbies of looking at swimming goldfish and local bird watching through my window for hours on end, giving them names and characters.” Keng Wai Lee