The evolution of Carolyn’s artistic practice has led her to produce some of the most assertive works in the field of Peranakan contemporary art. Her provocative subjects question the lasting stereotypes of purity and chastity of the bride through today’s social media culture, seeking reconciliation between the contemporary and the orthodox.

Carolyn’s works address today’s fast-paced society and questions the possibility of a better-appreciated life, family and culture in contemporary city living. As a nyonya, she has vested time and energy in uncovering her roots and unearthing this ‘disappearing’ culture.  Her pieces are distinctively vibrant, modern with her trademark gold embellishments and a staggering amount of detail paid to every individual masterful work. Carolyn dwells in the reconstruction of her Peranakan heritage and intends to resurrect it through her art. She pensively chooses her subjects and weaves together her philosophical beliefs and treasured culture in every of her paintings.

Painting, she believes, is healing for the soul and she regularly practices it for own her well-being as well as for others dearest to her. Carolyn lives and works in Singapore.

Carolyn’s interest in the natural environment inspired her to document the captivating mountains and wildlife when she travels. She visually demonstrates the ways her works add to the age-old landscape painting genre, characterised by her emotionally resonant portrayals of nature.

Her paintings attempt to capture the landscape as she experiences it with a veneration towards nature only an artist would have, using various palette knives to present scenes filtered through her temperament and personal vision. A strong dialogue between artist and nature is conveyed through a language of trees, basking wildlife and mountains, canvases aglow with the nostalgia of travel. Her subjects are protagonists in a grand odyssey of quietism and picturesque radiance against the unceasing noise of the quotidian world.

Carolyn’s realistic portrayals of animals convey exquisite states of light and form, the memories of her mind as a radiant exploration of pictorial traditions. Undisturbed animals are rendered by her palette knife, canvases applied with dramatic tonal contrasts extend these travels memories with mystical qualities. Her unique tonal style paintings introduce a unified space of light and atmosphere, scenes based on refined observation and an appreciation of nature indulged in reminiscence.