Artist Bio
As a photographer/digital artist living in the Coachella Valley (originally from Malaysia and Canada), I enjoy capturing snapshots of nature, architecture, and socio-culture that express a realistic representation of natural beauty, identity, and diversity from my perspective while conjuring up deep emotional, mental, and spiritual connections. I love experimenting with lighting, exposure, tone, angle, texture, and scale to highlight unique features and natural vibrancy from a raw subject capture to a refreshed art form.
Exploring modernistic contemporary photographic art has allowed me to combine my photography with digital techniques to go beyond the traditional form, blending realism and digital painting. As I develop my craft, I also aim to broaden my photography to include abstraction and even surrealism while preserving a photographic eye.
My photographic and digital artworks have received multiple awards in both national and internationally-juried exhibitions, online & book publications in, (and a TV newscast with KESQ in Palm Springs), US, Canada, Germany, and France (Paris), and Hungary (Budapest), including a “Winner” and “Finalist” in the Budapest ArtBIAS 2 International Exhibition (June 2024); 1st Place “People’s choice” award with Desert Art Center (Nov. 2024); Finalist Award: Blue Space's "Representation v. Abstraction - 2024”, June - July 2024: “Best in Show” (2023) & “Exhibition Finalist” awards (2024, June 2025) at Fusion Art, two “Bronze Award”s & “Artist of the Month: (Oct & July 2023) with Camelback Gallery, and multiple “Honorable Mention”, “Special Merits” and “Recognitions” awards in 2023 and 2024 with Light Space & Time, Teravarna galleries). Locally, I have exhibited at the Artists Council Center, Palm Desert; Desert Open Studios 2024, 2025); Desert Art Center, Palm Springs; and currently with the Living Out Palm Springs Art Project. My publications include “60 Artistes Du Mouvement Art Resilience,” France, and “Fictional Narrative,” Decagon Gallery, New York.