HweeYen

Hwee Yen is a Singaporean working in a technology company doing legal-related work.
She aspires to create things that are satisfying to her and inspiring to others.

Hwee Yen had always enjoyed art during school days, but only took it up seriously 2
years ago. She worked with oil and acrylic mainly, and is learning to use watercolour
and charcoal.

Hwee Yen travels extensively around the world and prefer to capture the landscapes
she has visited on her canvas. Strongly influenced by impressionist artists and post-
impressionism styles. Hwee Yen realised that brilliant or unique use of colours and
forms inspire her, hence she is attracted to works from Van Gogh, Cezanne, Monet,
Turner and Klimt amongst others. She admires Gaudi’s architecture and has special
likings for paintings which have an emotional slant like Edvard Munch’s, not forgetting
to mention those with imaginative surrealistic themes like Chagall’s.

Hwee Yen creative process involves sketching on the spot and continue with the aid of
photos that she later brings back to studio. She usually do an ink sketch to work out the
composition first, then continue the actual sketch on canvas. The challenge to her is to
focus on the overall scheme of things without getting too drawn into experimenting the
colours or distracted by detail at the beginning. She believes that when the overall
mood is set and general colour scheme worked out, things will start to come into place.

In the near future, she would like to learn and be comfortable with using various media.
In the long term, she hopes to create inspiring artworks. Above all, to her painting is a
learning and exploring process which she enjoys tremendously and hopes to continue
on a lifelong basis.