Theme
Padi Sage
Birds, flowers and the small life of the countryside form a quieter strand: sparrows and doves, fighting cockerels, pigeons among the branches of a rambutan tree. The 1981 feature records that one such canvas of pigeons took seven or eight preliminary studies before he was satisfied.
These are studies of attention as much as of subject, of looking closely at what is easily passed over.
2012 · Oil on canvas · 37 x 42 cm
Private collection (sold at auction)
Depicts Oil painting of two fighting cockerels.
2014 · Oil on canvas · 42.5 x 37.5 cm
Private collection (auction)
Depicts Oil painting of sparrows.
Image permission pending
c.1981 · Oil
Depicts Oil painting of pigeons, likely perched on a rambutan tree.
Image permission pending
1995 · Oil on canvas · 75 x 59 cm
Penang State Art Gallery
Depicts Oil painting of doves.
Image permission pending
2009 · Oil on canvas · 60 x 50 cm
Depicts Oil painting of sparrows among orchids.