Khor Kok Kheng, Untitled (Forest/Trees), 2006
Watercolour on paper
38.5 x 49 cm (visible), 65.5 x 75 x 2.5 cm (framed)
Condition: Good, with light foxing throughout the work and on the surrounding matboard.
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Khor Kok Kheng (David) (Singaporean, b. 1954) was born in Penang where he was captivated, life-long, by landscapes and temples and the historic town.
Living in Singapore since 1971 and, while lawyering, awakened a long interest in art, collecting paintings then himself resuming painting learnt at art lessons in school.
He studied watercolour under Ong Kim Seng for some years in the early 2000s.
He has exhibited his watercolour and oil paintings and drawings:
Dedication to Watercolour (An Ong Kim Seng and Students Exhibition), SMU Gallery, 2006
Tropical Landscapes, solo exhibition in a Kreta Ayer Road gallery, 2011-2012
A Melange of Time and Place (Camelot's Evening of Wine and Art), 2012, solo exhibition at a private apartment.
He is even now actively producing watercolours, oils, drawings, and has recently branched out to include oil pastels and Chinese ink.
Untitled (Forest/Trees) is a dreamy landscape of trees, painted as though seen through a mist. All of David Khor's paintings adopt different styles, but this piece is the most impressionistic of them all.
(Photographed in July 2025)