Juping's depictions of local streets, traditional architecture, and natural scenery distinguish him as one of the key pioneer artists of Malaya. His paintings, created with sturdy brushstrokes, offer a glimpse into the environment and spirit of a bygone era. Each painting is a quiet moment of reflection and observation, serving as a visual account preserving the heritage of the past.  Kuo Juping (the name was taken after a water plant) was in the pioneering batch of students at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore but had to return a year before graduating to tend to his father's import-export business, Sing Guan Thye & Co. He was a founding member of Thursday Art Group and Penang Chinese Art Club in 1936. He was one of the first artists to paint ordinary people and places such as rubber estates, oil palms, cocoa plantations, paddy fields, kampung, roof tops and make-shift hawker centres. He was a mentor of Tan Choon Ghee (1930-2010) who became a legendary watercolouris.