Depicted here is a panoramic view of a row of hawker stalls crowded with people. The natural treatment of light and shadow is masterfully rendered in translucent washes of colours. The artist effectively captures the lively spirit of communal life, daily rituals and recordings of local architectural heritage and in this case, the street vendors. Tan Choon Ghee completed his secondary education from Chung Ling high school in 1948 and graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore in 1951. He then attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1957 to 1959. He received a German government painting scholarship and an Australian government television set design scholarship. He worked for TV Singapore and TV Broadcast Ltd in Hong Kong prior to becoming a fulltime artist. He held numerous one man shows with his first in 1956 at the Hooi Ann Association, Penang followed by in 1958, 1962 and 1963 organised by the British Council, Penang; National Library in Singapore (1962 and 1970); Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur (1983 and 1993) among others. Tan has been honoured with two retrospective exhibitions in 1996 and 2000; a tribute show in Kuala Lumpur (2009) and a recent posthumous solo exhibition titled A Lifetime of Drawings showcasing his sketchbooks and paper works at the Penang State Art Gallery (2014).