Serene Wong

“Art is playing with space and experimenting the medium...a relish for emotions and expressions.”

Serene majored in interior designing during her tertiary years. Her interest in art started when she first designed t-shirts for the Military Band in her secondary. She started to be involved in the arts by taking time to volunteer for art events like international performance “Future of Imagination 2” and in World Prime’s “Arts in Education” symposium.

Most recently, in 2008, she took up relief teaching in a primary school , subsequently at a secondary school before she decided to enroll herself with the national education. Currently, she is training to become a full time art teacher.

Natural elements such as the canyon or gorge and body forms that reveals strengths are her sources of inspirations. She admires Monet’s works, especially his Japanese-inspired pieces. Other Asian art works from Japan, Korea, and China also influence her.

Serene’s artistic style shows strength, texture, brush strokes that display thoughts and experiences of lives . In order to express her emotions better, she explores continuously through playing with space and experimenting with different medium. They are tools for her to express her thoughts and emotions, and her works always display strength and texture. She has displayed her work at "Apple on Canvas" exhibition at My Art Space in 2008 and her personal works are uploaded on Fill-Your-Walls.

She is currently pursuing photography as a new medium in her artworks and an exhibition at an Italian restaurant.

Candy Lee

“Art making is total immersion; spiritual, emotional and physical.”

Candy’s creative interest began with colouring books. Her first job assignment was designing swimming costumes for a local manufacturer during school holidays. Since then, she has graduated from LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts with Diploma in Fashion Design in 1995.

Professionally, she was a Handbag and Shoes designer. Her other artistic interest led her to design costumes for stage productions for Toy Factory Ensemble 1995 and Dance Dimension Project in 1997. She was involved in performances with ECNAD production “B-cycle” in 1996.

Art-making to Candy is, “When I’m painting, it’s my own private space; I’m totally immersed into it; it’s a safe place for me to be myself and be by myself.” Her passion in art includes colors, textures and visual art forms that challenge and inspire viewers. Famous artists like Claude Monet inspires her with colors andGustav Klimt touches her with sensual depictions of women.

Letting her artworks speak on social issues; her most recent piece of 3-D installation on animal abuse was acquired by SPCA (Singapore) for educational purposes. Candy’s interests in art forms include writing, photography and performing arts.

Participated in A FEELING . A THINKING . AN IMPRESSION , Student Service Centre, NIE (2009), HeArt @ NSS (2009). Currently working on a costume for ECNAD’s new production in 2010.

Tay Kim Hong

“My artistic aspiration is to promote the appreciation of traditional painting medium.”

Tay Kim Hong, Aeolus is a skilled, qualified and an experienced photographer, having graduated from NAFA with Diploma in Visual Communication (majoring in Photography). Aeolus actively participated photography competitions and has won 2nd place in The ICON Award 05, Photography/DPM and Outstanding entry for “Peace” photography competition, Grain magazine Issue 7. Works of Mr Tay Kay Chin (Singapore Photographer), Mr Boo Sze Yang (Singapore Artist) and Mr Kris LeBoutillier (National Geographic Photographer) are his major influences.
Although his passion is photography, Aeolus is open to explore painting as an art medium. Besides photography, his other artistic strengths include acrylic painting, water colour painting and portraits.
Almost anything can inspire Aeolus’ works. They range from natural elements like trees, flowers, plants, water, birds, animals to people’s gestures and expressions to light, colours, shapes, forms and textures.
His current artistic style deals very much with vibrant colours and bold stroke and his artistic aspiration is to promote the appreciation of traditional painting medium.

Lai Liming

“Everyday life experiences with people and things inspire me the most. My works reflect my responses; how I feel, react and see things.”

Lai Liming graduated from NAFA with a Diploma in Visual Communication Majoring Photography and was an Art teacher at Musikinder Art School.

Artworks that serve a social purpose affect her the most. An artist like Fernando Botero ,who used his recent artworks to show cruel happenings in his country and reminded people about social issues at hand, inspires Liming. Daily life experiences with people and things are also sources of influence in her works. She expresses her views, feelings and reactions towards situations happening around her through her works.

Liming is currently exploring her artistic inclinations in various art forms.

What is Abstract art?

ABSTRACT ART.....what on earth u think it is?
The word abstract strictly speaking means to separate or withdraw something from something else.....

The idea that abstract art, to the extent that it does not represent
the material world, can be seen to represent the spiritual.
In general, abstract art is seen as carrying a moral dimension, in that it can be
seen to stand for virtues such as order, purity, simplicity and
spirituality...

Pioneers of abstract painting were Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian from about 1910-20.

You can see some famous abstract art from here:
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1382&page=1

What is your view on abstract art? We welcome your comments.

Painting Exhibition "Tribute to the Old Masters"

After one and half months of conceptualizing Art-mosphere, our first exhibition is born. Thanks to our dedicated team members, the feature wall was painted, paintings were framed and hung nicely at Ristotante de Parma at Serangoon Gardens.

This season's theme is "Tribute to the Old Masters" where Art-mosphere study works of old masters like Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, August Renoir, and Vincent Van Gogh. They were the well-known Impressionists during the Impressionism. Impressionism was an art movement from around 1870s to 1880s. One can see in a typical Impressionist’s artwork are paintings of light’s effect on subjects or scenery expressed through visible brushstrokes.

Artworks in this exhibition are created by Serene Wong, Lai Liming, Lim Win Nie, Candy Lee, Raza Lee and Tay Kim Hong. Do visit the restaurant with your friends or family for good food and ambiance while enjoying our art pieces.

"Tribute to the Old Masters" is on from 4 Feb 2010 to 25 May 2010.

Ristotante de Parma is a family friendly restaurant, it is located at: 14B Kensington Park Road (a stone's throw away from Chomp Chomp).Phone: 6281 3380/6280 1096. Website: http://RistoranteDeParma.com. Opening hours are: Lunch (12noon - 2.30pm), Dinner (6.00pm - 10.15pm), CLOSED on Wednesdays.

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