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Ignatius Yeo Singapore

Ignatius Yeo is largely a self-developed visual artist who fell in love with ink-wash approach. He has conducted several Guan Dao Pen workshops and demos since 2014. Notably, at the National Gallery Singapore Opening Celebrations 2015, 6th International Urban Sketchers Symposium 2015 and We Draw Singapore Together 2015.

His artworks (including those created with Guan Dao Pen) are collected by corporations and individuals in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Canada.

He is one of the 4 artists who did the 22m long wall mural in The CentrePoint.

Ignatius Yeo sees himself as a time traveller traversing space-time-space to walk his dot.

Ken Lee Singapore

Ken graduated with a Diploma in Interior Design and only then he realized that he likes to  draw. He is is a senior financial planner by day and also the brainchild of his own interior design firm by passion. Since then he becomes an night owl and hardly have enough sleep.

Ken is a hoarder of sketchbooks that can last him a lifetime (and still buying). He likes to use fountain pens with bulletproof ink, refillable water brushes, watercolor and portable polariod printer to record his sketch journal.

Ken has a sweet tooth for cakes and loves café sketching. He is also a avid Lego toy collector and loves building them.

Ken is fun. 

Be like Ken.

Alice Lim Singapore

Alice Lim is a Singaporean urban sketcher who sketches in ink and watercolour. She works full time in the field of regulatory science. In her free time, she travels the world to collect memories of beautiful landscapes, architecture, people and food through travel sketches.

She has exhibited in group shows such as We Draw Amaravati Together Exhibition (2018), Art Apart 7th Edition (2016) and Let’s Draw! Singapore Exhibition (2015). Her works have also been published in the We ♥ Our Neighbourhoods series. 

Tony Chua Singapore

Since his retirement at the end of 2008, Tony began dabbling in abstract art based on his moods and feelings. He participated in group art exhibitions with former art gallery, Fill-Your-Walls, at Tanjong Pagar.

Later, he discovered the joy of urban sketching with fellow sketchers from the end of 2009 until now. In his free time, he found himself drawn to a variety of subject matters such as shophouses in colourful districts, the marinas, construction sites and many others.

He went on to participate in numerous overseas official sketching events in Barcelona, Singapore, Manchester, Bangkok and Kuching, to mingle and share with fellow-minded sketchers from all over the world.

Tia Boon Sim Singapore

TIA, as she is affectionately called, is an architect turned art and design educator. She is currently the first Artist-in-Residence at Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore. TIA is the founding director of Urban Sketchers, founder for Urban Sketchers Singapore and Thow Kwang Clay Artists Studio. Her paintings were made into stamps and first day covers to commemorate the Singapore National Day in 2011. A speaker at TEDxSingapore in 2013, TIA is also an independent publisher for two books, Urban Sketchers Singapore: Volumes 1 (2011) and 2 (2015). 

Her artwork was presented to the Prime Minister of Singapore in 2012, and her skyline sketches of Tokyo and Singapore were presented to Ambassador of Embassy of Japan, Singapore in 2016. In Feb 2018, her painting was presented to the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh at inter-government level. In May 2018, she created a 3-metre long skyline painting for Jurong Town Corporation to celebrate JTC50.

Lin Chan Singapore

Lin Chan is an art director/graphic designer who manages design consultancy. She has worked in advertising and design for 50 years in Singapore, supervising most of McCann Erickson’s projects (from thumbnails to actual photo shoots), which has helped her tremendously on where, what and how to sketch.

Whilst pursuing a career in graphic design, she also devotes much of her time to painting her favourite subjects of people and places. In her words, “I want to paint nature and buildings in Singapore while they are still here. I have this passion inside me, to capture the feeling of what can become the bygone era, the lush tropical environment that personifies Asian living and capture the special moment in time on canvas when the tropical sunlight illuminates with a special glow. I call my style an urban expression... from sunny Singapore.”

Pocholo Issa Estremos Singapore

Pocholo is a Licensed Architect from the Philippines who worked in Singapore in an International Landscape Architectural, Master Planning & Urban Design Firm as a Landscape Designer/Renderer.

He learned and developed himself through constant sketching by joining Urban Sketcher Singapore somewhere on 2010 an interest group associated with the global non-profit organization Urban Sketchers in promoting location drawings. 

He is also the Founder of Urban Sketcher Cebu and a proud member of Commute Sketcher in Singapore and a member of International Watercolor Society Philippines.

He was invited 2 straight years by the SIA (Singapore Institue of Architects) to do a Workshops in a yearly Event ARCHIFEST 2017 City Sketching Workshop and ARCHIFEST 2018 Your City Sketching Moments Workshop.

And one of the 26 proud urban sketcher/artist to be invited and participate in a Historical Urban sketching and painting journey in India last 2017 for the We Draw Amaravati Project commissioned and sponsored by the Ministry of Trade and Industry MTI in Singapore.

Some of his works are included and published in the Books like (Urban Sketcher Singapore Volume 1 and 2 also in the Our Neighbourhoods series and The Fort Canning Hill Exploring Heritage and Nature Book. You can also see some of his Commute sketches displayed in some Bus Interchange and Train Station here in Singapore. 

Currently practicing and enjoying Full watercolor painting for about Few years already and attended Alvaro Castagnet Master Class Workshop and currently been invited to participate Charity Exhibition in his hometown.His inspirations are some of the Masters in watercolor the likes of Alvaro Castagnet, Joseph Zbuckvic,Herman Pekel, Prafull Sawant, Direk Kingnok,Sergei Kurbatov and many more. 

Patrick Ng Singapore

Patrick has been passionate about art and sketching ever since he was a kid. And even though he later went into the music industry, art was never far from his heart and reach. A self-taught artist, his favourite media is ink and watercolours. He is a key leader in Urban Sketchers Singapore, the local chapter of a large international community of artists passionate about on-location (en plein-air) sketching. 

His works have found their way into locally published books and exhibitions, including one in the National Museum of Singapore (NMS), and another now residing in the Istana, as a gift to then-President Dr Tony Tan.He has given public urban sketching seminars in collaboration with NMS, NLB, and Temasek Polytechnic. In 2015, he led in organising an International Urban Sketching Symposium held in Singapore, which was attended by over 400 artists from all over the world.