"My early venture into the art of Chinese painting has been influenced by the Shanghai School of Painting, which was founded by great masters such as Wu Changshuo and culminated in the works of his students such as Pan Tianshou and Wang Geyi.

Chen Wen Hsi and Fan Chang Tian, students of Pan and Wang respectively, emigrated to Singapore. I owe much of my initial training to Foo Chee San and Nai Swee Leng , who in turn, were students of Chen and Fan respectively. Under their guidance, I was initiated to delve into the underlying Chinese philosophy and to master the disciplined technique demanded by Chinese painting, in a quest of an accord between heart and hand, from one subject to another starting from bamboo to flowers and birds, and from trees to landscapes."

"In my painting, I aim to achieve controlled and yet harmonious splashings of varied Chinese ink and colours, and a rich mix of dry-wet, dispersed-concentrated, bright-dark and light-heavy effects, by using the self-invented technique of 'pigmentising-and-alumising'.

Heavy colour is created from a mixture of colour pigments from mineral and vegetable sources. The surface of my paintings is usually converted into a virtual platform, sometimes unpredictable, on which diverse entities converge, and then diverge to make a picture, fully illustrating the melodious fluctuation between Yin and Yang in the workings of all things."