Heart and Soul: Using his artistic talent to benefit others

"Birds Of Malaysia: An Artist’s Love" features some 130 prints of Yeow Teck Chai’s artworks. It is intended to highlight the rich varieties of birds in Malaysia across diverse habitats such as highlands, lowlands, coasts and wetlands.

In his days as a happy-go-lucky youth, my friend Yeow Teck Chai was struck by the harmonious tweeting of birds emanating from the rainforests around Kuantan.

As his inquisitiveness intensified, he became so absorbed that he began to impersonate his feathered friends by answering them with different bird calls. His interest in birds kindled, he reared a few species, like the common myna, spotted doves and zebra doves, at his home.