Happy 2019! In conjunction with the upcoming Lunar New Year, we are delighted to bring you our first exhibition of the year -- Lingnan Master Puah Kim Hai's Chinese Ink Solo Exhibition + Chinese Old Porcelains & Ceramics Exhibition. This is also our first series of Younie Gallery's 10th Anniversary Project: The Encounter of the Old & Contemporary in Arts, where we combine exhibitions of contemporary artist and old porcelains & ceramics into one.

Puah Kim Hai was born in Kuala Lumpur in the year 1950. After graduating from Malaysia Institute of Art (MIA) in 1972, he pursued professional Chinese Ink Painting under the famous Lingnan Art master Yang Shanshen. He combines techniques of Batik and Chinese brush together to create Malay figurative paintings. Puah has been known as the Malaysian Lingnan Art Master, and he is currently the President of Malaysian Lingnan Art Society. He held many solo and group exhibitions both locally and internationally.

潘金海老师生于1950年马来西亚吉隆坡，于1972年毕业于马来西亚艺术学院，之后跟随香港著名嶺南派大师杨善深修学水墨绘画技术。

在他的作品之中。拥有着强烈的嶺南画派的特色与风格，只是他的作品色彩鲜艳但不张扬，依然秉承粗中有细，细中有粗的绘画原则，还有一份含蓄的情感渲染色彩,内敛且不浮夸，把他内在蕴藏的情感艺术精髓，默默一点一滴的挥写出来。从过去绘画技法的执着与狂热，到今天的开旷与自由，皆是他的生活智慧的反映，也筑成他现今的绘画风格。而在本土，能够把嶺南画派的技法与精神延续与提升的，也只有他。若他不能被称为本土嶺南大师，又可为谁？