Chong Siew Ying likes to explore notions of beauty and to show humans affinity to Nature with face landscapes with whiffs of passing time. Siew Ying, a Sekinchan farmer’s daughter, is an established mid-career artist, who after her Diploma in Graphic Design at the Petaling College of Art and Design continued her studies at the L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Versailles (1991-1994) and then L’Atelier 63 (1994-1996), supporting herself by working part-time as an au pair. Her credentials include two artist’s residencies – Rimbun Dahan, Selangor (1999-2000) and the Vermont Studio Centre, United States (2001, Freeman Asian Artist Fellowship), and a Special Award in the 2002 Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) competition (She was also a finalist in the Hong Kong Sovereign Art Prize in 2009). She had solos in Paris (Maison Tch’A, Atelier d’ Maravel and Gallery Café Panique before her first solo in Kuala Lumpur in 1998, and took part in Being Human: Figuratism in Art Stage Singapore in 2015. Her other Malaysian solos include Infinity (2011), Idylle: New Paintings (2008); Many Splendoured Things (2006); and Going Away, Coming Home (2002).