Watch In Silence For Changes (acrylic on canvas, 2016). Photos: Wei-Ling Gallery
With the bright colours and bouncing beach balls he incorporates into his paintings, you would be forgiven to think that all is rosy in his world. But instead of the unbridled, child-like glee that is apparent here, Wong Chee Meng comes across as being an observer of life who is simply an optimist thankful for the opportunities that come his way.
One of the incidents that made a big impact on him and played a role in rekindling his focus in art was an accident when he was a teenager that robbed him of perfect vision in one eye, taking with him the light from his world.
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