About Grace Sow
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Grace is Singaporean and working as a lecturer in a local Polytechnic where her job
involves carrying out both teaching and research in the area of IT and media
technologies.

Presently, Grace paints mainly in oil and acrylics medium. She thinks that art is more
than just applying the right techniques with the paintbrushes.  It is a process where one
learns to see beauty in his surroundings and create artworks that replicate that beauty,
which can be enjoyed by many. She thinks that we all created art since we were
children. The doodling, mindless sketching that we do during boring lessons were all
some form of art. She feels that there are no fix rules in defining what art is but whatever
intrigues our sense of beauty and wonders can be called art.

Grace loves art works by expressionists like Van Gogh, Edvard Munch etc.  Thus the
reason behind the enjoyment of creating art that depicts not objective reality but the
subjective emotions aroused by the objects or experience. She is also inspired by
various artists in My Art Place and explains that it is mind-opening to see the different
ways they interpret the same object that we all paint.

Grace contributes her creative process through reading extensively as it helps her to
think out of the box. At the same time, she finds simple observations of the environment
in everyday life, helps her to focus and see things that she would miss otherwise. She
is now working on a series of paintings of old architectures in China. She aspires to
continue to grow as an artist, always seeking truth and beauty.