Under the scorching sunlight of Lok Kerk Hwang's watercolour brush, details are thrown into high relief, and the minutiae of mundane surfaces is revealed. Kerk Hwang is a master of textures: peeling paint and enamel from doors and walls, the freckled rusting of machinery, the shiny glint off ceramic roof tiles and manufactured plastic... strong shadows bringing out sharp contrasts where no imperfections can be hidden. Each scene seems suspended in the full glare of the noonday sun in consummate stillness, where the heat has driven life indoors leaving the inanimate mercilessly baking. One almost averts the eyes at the strength and brilliance of light emanating beyond the frames.

About the artist:

Lok Kerk Hwang, CSPWC, AFCA, born in 1973, is an award-winning watercolor artist as well as a Signature Member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and Federation of Canadian Artists. He has been a member of the Singapore Watercolour Society (SWS) since 1998 and the Singapore Art Society (SAS) since 2002.

-Utterly Art

Image: © Lok Kerk Hwang
Courtesy of the artist and Utterly Art