Reaching out through Art

Fund raising for Perak Autistic Society was held at YMCA Ipoh on Saturday, 12 March 2011.  There were Story Telling session and Rice Paper Painting session with Artist, Theresa Lim Mun Sim.

Theresa Lim was born and bred in Ipoh.  She developed a keen interest in art at a young age and became Perak's first woman architect after her studies in Architecture at Sydney University in 1956. She served as Principal Lecturer in the Civil Engineering Building Department of Singapore Polytechnic until 1987.  Theresa continue to nurture her passion for art under the tutelage of Chinese artists like Chen Wen Hsi and David Kwok.  Having already published 2 books on her eary years in Ipoh, she is now eager to share her understanding of love through her paintings and writing.

The painting session at YMCA was opened to children and adults, maximum intake of 15 participants only.  Materials were provided. 

Four of my friends and I had attended the Rice Paper Painting session.

All the participants were provided with a palette together with a black, red, blue, green and yellow water colour and 3 different sizes of Chinese Brushes. After Theresa Lim explained and demostrated the Rice Paper Painting to us, we were asked to practise on a piece of Rice Paper.  It was a very good experience for me.  That was my first experience painting on Rice Paper and also my first experience painting Chinese Art.  It was very fascinating, interesting and fun to paint on Rice Paper. We we taught how to paint water lilies and fishes.





Theresa Lim was demostrating her painting.






Painted by Theresa Lim.

 

Painted by me.



Painted by my friend, Cindy.

  

Painted by my friend, Chooi.



Painted by me, 2nd piece.



My 1st piece of Rice Paper Chinese Painting.

The Rice Paper Painting session took an hour only. As soon as the Rice Paper Painting session ended, it was followed by Storytelling session for children.

There was also sales of Theresa Lim's Book:

i)   Once upon a Bell Tree

ii)  A Little Grain of Rice

This event was organised by Autism Support Association for Parents, Ipoh, Perak (ASAP) (0023-09-PRK).

Posted on Tuesday, 12.04.2011.