Unlit hopes Painting by Taimeng Lim

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Original Artwork Painting, on Canvas

Artworks classification

Original Artwork

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Dimensions Height 18in, Width 24in
Categories Figurative

Among some eastern cultures, there’s a practice and believe that life is a cycle of birth, death and rebirth. It is a way of life that acknowledges the ups and downs of life as a means for an individual’s soul to mature, the body being a temporary house for the soul and life as an opportunity for experience. Intrigued by this concept, I am inspired to bring to light this piece depicting unlit kerosene lamps hung on the wall of a building. The reflections on the lamps symbolises the souls’s experience already encountered through life. The lamps being lit at night to burn till a new day with the process being repeated again at the first hint of twilight represents the concept of rebirths with hopes that the soul is enrich further with enlightening experience and growth.

• Selected for National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society (NOAPS) Third Juried Art Exhibition "On-Line International Spring 2014"
• Selected for Open Show Malaysia 2014 by National Visual Arts Gallery.
• Honorable Mention for "Still Life" International fine art on-line juried competition by Art-Competition net
• BoldBrush Painting Competition - FAV15% (July 2014)
• 1st Place in The 2014 International Art Contest - Realism category

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Figurative

Figurative and colorful painting having taken the liberty of including all forms of art without border of cultural genre and geographic origin, without hierarchy of values between high and subculture.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Related themes

Lamps Wall Kerosene Unlit Red

Taimeng Lim

Malaysia

Tai-Meng Lim (Malaysian, born 1976) started painting at the tender age of ten. His curiosity and passion for the arts lead him to experiment with various methods and mediums. Growing up from a humble family background, most of his experiences then of arts and paintings were self-taught. This would eventually become the very foundation necessary to kick start his creative journey and in 1993, he was honored with scholarship programs for his participation in the National Art Scholarship Competition.

He graduated from the Malaysian Institute of Art in Graphic Design in 1997 and began working professionally in the advertising industry. Being a dedicated individual and somewhat of a perfectionist, he focused his efforts on his career till 2011. Picking up the paintbrush again felt nostalgic and Tai-Meng rekindled that inner joy for painting he had discovered as a child. Paying heed to that calling, he started pursuing opportunities to create as a freelance fine artist.

His artistic direction is derived from the exploration and struggles of day-to-day life activities. As such, Tai-Meng tends to tell a story via his paintings. It reflects his personal opinions and feelings about whatever he may wish to convey through paint strokes and his interpretation of art. His painting style always embodies transformation and change, which is closely connected to his process of self-discovery. He tirelessly plays with various methods and techniques to produce and bring to reality concepts and ideas in pursuit of a deeper understanding of his very self and the environment around him. This truly provides unlimited possibilities as well as endless inspirations, ideas, and queries that can be explored on his journey as an artist, and the creative process, as well as the understanding that comes with it, is simply satisfying

MEMBERSHIPS:-
• National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society (NOAPS) - Signature member • International Society of Acrylic Painters (ISAP) - Master Signature member• Pastel Society of America (PSA) - Signature member • Pastel Society of the West Coast (PSWC) - Distinguished Pastelist • International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) - Master Circle • Portrait Society of America