Thursday, February 9, 2023

Metamorphosis

 Many of my artworks are available in different forms now.  I love this metamorphosis. Dreams come true at the least expected situations. 

During the pandemic and lockdown from March 2020 till January 2022, I had the chance to organize my photos and when the photo books arrived I was in tears of joy to see my own painting journey in pages.  This is the kind of fuel I have been driven from. 

I have launched my cushion covers featuring the birds and animals I love. There're more rooms to share my art with now.  

I have started a collection of hand embellished art of the elaborate pieces that are time consuming to create. Each artwork is Unique,  and that is what I want for my customers! I will continue to experiment with different designs and collectibles, they keep my creative juices flowing.

During a July-August voyage to the Arctic, I stepped in for the watercolor class as the artist that should come on board Saga Cruise was affected by the pandemic. It sparked my joy in teaching again. I started art classes for private groups in between the travels in 2022.

Then I revisited Falklands for the fourth time during the Antartica voyage on Azamara Pursuit in December -February.  Elated to see the King Penguins have been doing well.  The colony of 19 that I have created a watercolor painting of after my visits in 2020 has expanded. I am fond of these beautiful creatures, they possess the charm that could keep me watching them for the whole day. That made it mind-boggling when I visited the colony of Magellanic penguins in Punta Tombo, Patagonia. Everywhere there're penguins that's estimated to be 2million in this largest colony on Continental South America. 

Back in the studio after a long journey, I'm keeping occupied with more penguin art! They are offloaded onto the watercolor paper now.  http://yeetingwong.com 

With Gentoo Chicks on a hot day 


A relaxing Magellanic Penguin 




Sunday, February 27, 2022

New Website Under Construction

 A new gallery and shop will be available soon.  It is exciting and challenging with the new formats but getting there!






Saturday, February 29, 2020

2020

 

A commission,  Bouquet at Signal Hill
Watercolor on watercolor paper 



A very different time,  that has slowly becoming adapted and adjusted to. It changed the whole year's plan for where I would be and as I am writing in the beginning of  March 2021 from my studio in Kota Kinabalu, I must say I did my best to be.

My goal is to paint or create every day. The uncertainties ahead of the world is tremendously changing the way I regard all the things that were easily accessible by having the freedom to do what I want at where and when I want.  I could say it is the same now,  I decide and choose for everything, every aspects of life.  But the frame is tighter and narrower.  I decided that I want to embrace it all,  come what may.  After all,  I am blessed with the roof over my head and a burning heart to create.

Friday, July 19, 2019

Home

For me, home is where my studio is. The answer to the constant question from people, 'so, where's home for you?'
 At the studio, I am in my favorite mode of being- creating!
I like to set up stations in the studio, or a room, to accommodate works of mine of different sizes for different exhibitions.
They serve as 'mood zones'. Which is vital for me to function as a creative painter. And helps to generate similar flow of work that I have been working the day before or earlier.
Right now I am preparing for the UK Bird Fair and Borneo Women's Art Exhibition.
It's warm in the tropics, luckily I am acclimatized as soon as I am back!




Friday, December 7, 2018

Sourcing for New Art Materials

As the 2018 travelling rolls from one to the next, I have been to so many new places, seen so many new creatures, people and things over the past eleven months. I am in a hotel in Lima, to complete my one month travelling in Peru for another three days. Marvelled at the new Seven Wonders of The World Machu Picchu, Amazonas river cruise, Amazon rainforest & islands, bird watching with top experienced bird guides in Peru. Hiking in Northern Peru to see the endemics of the mountain and the most spectacular displays of the Marvelous Spactuletail, the most beautiful hummingbird of the world. There are more than 50 species of hummingbirds I have seen now.
I will use these wonderful experiences, loading them gradually into my next art works. I must admit that it is a challenge, never before I have so much resources for my creative input and output! I am definitely overwhelmed.
In the ten days break from travelling in December, I shall be doing lots of organizing of my abundant artistic resources.
A birthday card for a new friend from one of the trips on our itinerary envelope, featuring a Llama Family, as South American as can be expected!
She was thrilled.


Friday, March 16, 2018

Warton Hall Garden


To zest up the winter studio in Denmark, I started off with a set of orangutans ink and coffee watercolor! They are excited to be in the open garden at Warton Hall Garden from 3rd - 7th May.
             Part 1 : Strandvang, Denmark
Step 1: Inked
Step 2: Coffeed!

Absolutely my own original idea, my Bird Connect Paintings will be featuring Birds of English Garden this season.
Inked and spattered!


First bird, a Gold Finch


Canvas 1. Birds of English Garden

Canvas 2. Birds of English Garden

Canvas 3. Birds of English Garden

Canvas 4. Birds of English Garden

Painting the birds. That feeling of joy, when working with colors! I'm happy.



Hawfinches

Jay

Bullfinches & Hawfinch
I like the plain background. But I know I will add on , the colors outside the windows suggests more!



Spring Symphony I & II, III & IV will be rolled up tomorrow and that's for now with Spring studio session ain Denmark.
I will finalize details when I am in the studio in UK.






Part 2 : Warton Hall, UK
Arrived safely. Stretching on blind stretchers is hard work for me!




Adding in the happiness!


Ok



 The panels and the surroundings echoing one another. 



Why do I create? It gives me enjoyment.


Exhibition ready!


Transient Dreamers I & II

How can I resist a round canvas? Of course I have to buy two. A well stocked art material shop in Blackpool is like a treasure cove for me. Can't wait to start!



     


     
How painting happens to me, is a process of transforming my passion, observations and fascinations of my surroundings.  Channelling my energy into finding subjects, that can express my emotions through their colors, shapes and forms.
Open my mind, and let saturated in the atmosphere. When I am awake, the dreamy state makes it's marks. Love is in the air, Spring is in the air. Making the invisible visible. Therefore my art is created!

Monday, January 30, 2017

Going To The River


A commission painting.
-The jungle scene with Borneo wildlife rooting in their habitats plus lush greens-



                   


Technically, it sounds like this.
Emotionally, it is more.
Sitting in a room, the closest green is the climber on my balcony that managed from a floor below.
Overlooking the backyard garden, playground and the small hillside that once in a while the township workers come to clear, I enjoy the sightings of sunbirds, squirrels, chameleons, white breasted waterhens , emerald doves and common bubuls.
This small patch of green lung is the home for a small group of urban wildlife, that I hope will stay.
The Borneo Rainforest, the kingdom of animals is getting attention from humans, of different motives. The cooperation is after the economic and natural resources, the poachers after the ivory, feathers, skins and bones. The naturalists and environmentalists do their research and conservations.
The animals, they just want to wake up at the break of day and go to the river for a swim.
Or perch on a tree, or feed on the figs.
Or care for their youngs, or swing from tree to tree.
Physically, my back hurts with thoughts like this, and when I sit on the floor for too long, painting.
Emotionally, I am contented to be the story teller of the Utopia I have created.




Going To The River
152 x 80cm Oil on canvas Commission

                 

Friday, October 7, 2016

Self Portraits of The Silent Ambassador

Somehow it came to a point during the process of creating my enjoyable watercolors and wildlife paintings, that there should be an image to describe the artist that believes her works are carrying messages of importance about the randomness, beauty; precious, strange and wonderful elements of the Wildlife and Birds, and that these are the essential creatures to help balance everything on Earth. That their existence is also closely linked with the human's, more than we ever wanted to know..
So here's Borneo Art Base's Silent Ambassador, carrying the motifs of the wildlife representative, the birds.










Friday, August 26, 2016

Of The Rainforest Wildlife Paintings

All are special, all are treasured. Mamals or birds, amphibians or insects. They are jewels of my creation.








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