Born in Ipoh, Yeoh Jin Leng studied at the Chelsea School of Art, London (1957-1961), and later at the Institute of Education, London University, in 1962. Upon completing his studies abroad, Jin Leng revisited and reinterpreted the Malaysian landscape, based on his development in drawing, and knowledge of history and culture acquired while in London. Nature has provided Jin Leng with boundless inspiration, and he is known primarily for his evocative landscape paintings, composed of impressions of the land, sky and sea. Influenced by Ivon Hitchens and Patric Heron, Jin leng enhanced the luminous properties of the medium of oil and used various brushworks to create movement and sensation of the land. In Blue Sky Landscape, Jin Leng expresses his deep affinity for nature: creating broad shapes, simplifying forms to give them a universal quality. The artist reduced elements of landscape to coloured planes, informed by his understanding of the use of line and its artistic potential. Jin Leng’s strong interest in color is evident in this work, overlapping rhythmic colours of blue, green and yellow, and succeeds in conveying a tranquil landscape composition that captured the effects of light and atmosphere. Yeoh Jin Leng is one of the few Malaysian artists left trained in the rigours of the classical British tradition, Chelsea no less from 1957 to 1961. He was also educated at the Malaysian Teachers College in Kirby, Liverpool, in 1952, and the London Ministry of Education, London University. Apart from the MIA, he had also lectured on Art Education at the Specialist Teachers Training Institute, Kuala Lumpur (1963-1968). He was in the pioneer abstract group called GRUP, after his first solo at the British Council, Kuala Lumpur, in 1965. He took part in the Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil in 1969, and was in the Malaysian art travelling exhibition to Hamburg, Rome, St Etienne and Paris in 1967. He was honoured by the National Art Gallery with a Retrospective of his paintings, ceramics and installations in 1996. He held a mini Post-Retros Ten Years On in Kuala Lumpur of his 1997-2007 works. He was a two-term member of the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery in 1989-1991 and 1992-1997, president of the Society for Art Education from 1974-1983, and founder-member and vice-president of the Malaysian Artists Society 1982-1984.