Lee Cheng Yong was adept at portraits, still-life, Realism and abstracts including a sustained series on Cubism. Here, Cheng Yong’s versatility is displayed in this still life composition through his experimentation with object placement, textures, and lines. A variety of vegetables including cabbage, spring onion, chillies, tomatoes placed in a rattan basket comes together to form a well-balanced composition. He explores the relationship of forms and colour against a subtle background that enhances the crisp green shades from the leaves, allowing the audience to delve deeper into scenes from his everyday life. He was also an activist, as founding president of the Penang Chinese Art Club (1935), founding member of the Society of Chinese Artists Singapore (1935), Ying Ying Art Society (1936) and the Penang Art Society (1953). He was arguably the second artist to have a proper solo exhibition, at the Philomatic Union in Acheen Street in 1932. In 1996, the Penang State Art Gallery accorded him a Retrospective, and in the same year, he was given a Memorial exhibition at The Art Gallery, Penang.