Artist Information:
Leon Chew
Singapore,
Singapore
Member Since: Aug 2000
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Artist Statement:
Leon Chew: artist, art consultant, art educator, esthetician, scholar of Chinese and European painting
The first Ph.D. in Fine Art/Esthetics from Goldsmiths College awarded by the University of London, Leon Chew returned to Singapore in 1997. Besides being an esthetician-scholar and an experienced administrator-educator, he actively engages as an art consultant and judge for art competitions nationally and internationally. He was awarded life membership of the Society of Chinese Artists in 1989. His artworks have been exhibited in solo shows and juried art exhibitions, and collected by both public organizations and private bodies in Asia, the Pacific, Europe and America.
With 'Heart and Hand in Accord, Travelling Round the East and the West' as his motto, he has created successfully a unique style in combining calligraphy and painting. He pursues a state of 'in between natural figuration and spiritual abstraction'. He seeks the Yin Yang harmony of form and spirit, past and present, East and West.
In his painting, thus, he aims to achieve harmonious splashings of varied ink and colors, and a rich mix of dry-wet, dispersed-concentrated, bright-dark and light-heavy effects, by using the self-invented technique of 'pigmentizing-and-alumizing'. ...
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Leon Chew's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Leon Chew's Portfolio. Browse Chew's body of work: Leon Chew: artist, art consultant, art educator, esthetician, scholar of Chinese and European painting
The first Ph.D. in Fine Art/Esthetics from Goldsmiths College awarded by the University of London, Leon Chew returned to Singapore in 1997. Besides being an esthetician-scholar and an experienced administrator-educator, he actively engages as an art consultant and judge for art competitions nationally and internationally. He was awarded life membership of the Society of Chinese Artists in 1989. His artworks have been exhibited in solo shows and juried art exhibitions, and collected by both public organizations and private bodies in Asia, the ... | |
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