What pomp and flourish on-stage, What sordidness back-stage;
The contrast etches on the mind, With a great force.
A source of infinite inspiration, from different time and age, the Cheng Hoon Teng Temple of Melaka is a subject of Tham for many times, everyone expressed in different style and technique, capturing the temple?s glory in different lights, moods and conditions.
Yet another piece inspired by the fire of gemstone opal, the colorway has a tendency of warmth in it for the breed of fire opal from Mexican is formed in volcanic activities and has sulfuric content in it?s molecular level, forming yellowish orangey color with splashes of green and rarest purple.
A rainy scene of Melaka river, some of the splashes on the painting is raindrops, painting under open sky with nature light is one of Tham’s signature art approaches, a surprise drizzle caught artist by surprise, an welcome surprise. “Accident doesn’t create good art, but sometimes best art is created by accident.”