Bee Khaw was born in Malaysia but spent most of her life in Singapore, where she worked in the travel industry. As a child, she remembered telling her parents about becoming an artist. The news was not well received; no parents from South East Asia would encourage such a career choice; they told her to be practical and stop dreaming. However, on one working trip to Paris, she stepped into the Louvre Museum, along the corridor of the Renaissance was her first encounter with the old masters; a surge of emotions overwhelmed her, bringing forth memories of her childhood dream.
This passion for the work of the old masters led her to Florence, Italy and later to the Imperial Academy of Arts in Russia as an intern. Her classical art training centred on observation of nature, sound aesthetic principles and universal themes. This enables her to transmit her vision by adopting the traditional process and impressionistic method.
Upon returning home from her art study abroad, she entered a small painting into a competition and received a painting prize of the Emerging Artist Award facilitated by the City of South Perth 2019. Her artistic approach explores and visually investigates the emotional and psychological states of beings through quiet contemplative reflections to derive from a storytelling in a classic contemporary sense. Her works can be found in private collections across Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.
Bee Khaw is a fine art portrait and figurative artist who is based in Perth, Western Australia where she currently lives and works.
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- Date written:
- 2021
- Last updated:
- 2022
