2024 | Unseen & Unseated
Reflecting on progress in SG and who/what we leave behind (our humanity)
2024 | Shadows of Progress
Being home evokes all sorts of complicated emotions
2024 | Le Grand Heron
A bridal gift for a violin-playing Canadian friend with whom I drifted on a lake listening to birdsong
2024 | For someone I lost
I'm sorry we couldn't grow old and sit in rocking chairs together
2024 | The Red Piano
(I got frustrated and ended up painting over this piece.)
2024 | Unstable Worlds
Inspired by Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron
2023 | Lego appendages
Christmas present for my only cousin — the only relative whom i’d let slice my (lego) appendages off with a lightsaber over (and over) and over again…
2023 | St Mark & St Peter
A place where I found community I loved
2023 | Prehistoric Purling
Designing & knitting this practically took me three geological periods
2023 | Replica
This is my replication of WM Hawkins' art. First acrylic painting from Montreal during a paint night with friends.
2023 | First Knitted Sweater
The result of that one time I decided it'd be a good idea to buy ten kilos of wool from a street market in India
2022 | Centre des femmes
Sketching places on my daily commute was a way of processing the world
2022 | Reve-Levesque & Atwater
Down the street from our place
2022 | Morrice Hall
Documenting new beginnings in an old country
2021 | Migrant Workers
You need to do better, Singapore
2021 | Alocasia Longiloba
Initial attempt at watercolours -- this was a friendship plant gift from my plant community
2021 | So done with this &^%$ pandemic
Need I say more?
2021 | Replica
This is my replication of a painting by Erika Lee Sears.
2020 | Tumble
My 14-year-old grumpy cat was most unimpressed with his portrait
2020 | Pandemic plants
Reaching out to catch the light
2020 | Monstera Adonsonii
Mushing together two of my pandemic hobbies
2020 | Toe beans
Cat toe beans much better than hooman beans
2020 | Eye/I
Self-portrait of Cleo's eyebags
2020 | Birch Mosaic
An early experiment with painting gradients.
2019 | You are what you eat
Food I grew up with and food I grew into
2019 | Initial Attempts at Acrylics
This was me starting to get into painting during the pandemic
2012 | Classroom doodles
I used to doodle So. Many. Hands.
2011 | Cafe doodles
Teenaged Cleo used to think that sitting at starbucks to journal while having a too-sweet toffee nut latte was peak aesthetic culture
2008 | Asian?
Pre-pubescent Cleo was trying to figure out her cultural identity
1998 | Mini-me liked dinosaurs
Yes, I do suppose brontosauri had human-like ankles