I am pleased to share with you Chen Yanning’s （陈衍宁） masterpiece Amidst the Flowers which depicts a simple, happy, and carefree village life. This artwork features two young ethnic minority women wearing traditional costumes and jade bracelets, holding a plate of corn kernels under a tree full of hanging wisteria flowers in bloom, and feeding eight hens and roosters. The artist indicated he painted the artwork in the “City of Goats” (a nickname for Guangzhou) on the Bank of the Pearl River.
You can see the artist Chen Yanking at work painting Queen Elizabeth’s portrait in a photo. Another photo shows an oil painting of a young lady with an umbrella standing beside a Wisteria tree in bloom (top).
Tan It Koon
Before retirement, Dr Tan It Koon was, among many appointments, Head of Clinical Biochemistry at SGH’s Dept of Pathology. He was the Deputy Chairman of the National Theatre Trust and Chairman for Grants and Scholarships of the Spore Cultural Foundation. He received the National Day Awards, PBM, and PPA, for his contribution to cultural and community development and excellence in Public Administration.
