Chew standing beside his painting ‘My Beloved Hometown, Kuching City’. The painting is among the highlights of Chew’s recent exhibition at Hoan Gallery and one of his personal favourites. — Photos by ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE/The Star
In homecoming show, an artist blends nostalgia and progress in every brushstroke.
THE quaint shophouses of downtown Kuching, overlooked by the gleaming Sarawak Legislative Assembly complex across the river, fill a large canvas in a painting that illustrates the city’s heritage and modernity.
