This romantic image composed of delicate magnolia florals and a red bird are rendered in the artist’s signature treatment of surface on the canvas, encompassing a deliberate blurred edged which evokes a filmic contemporary aesthetic. The formation of shadows from the florals and refined choice of colour palette consisting of rich hues of purple, red, green, and white greatly enhances the splendid aura of the painting. Based in Singapore, Chan received his Master of Fine Art in painting from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia in 2000. He has held numerous solo exhibitions including WANTED: possession and rejection at Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore (2011), The Romantics of Betrayal ION Art Gallery, Singapore (2010), Fine Displacement at Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong (2008), and most recently, Misfits and Bandits (2014/2015). Chan has also exhibited Hitchcock’s Love Affair with Abstract Expressionism (2013) at the Olympia Grand Hall in London’s Global Art Fair. The prestigious fair presented a solid consolidation of work from emerging artists across Asia, The Middle East, Africa as well as the West. In 2002, he was awarded the Juror’s Choice at the Philip Morris ASEAN Art Awards and in 2003 the Highly Commended honor at the United Overseas Bank (UOB) Painting of the Year Competition. In 2007, Chan was the first artist to launch the BMW Young Asian Artists series in collaboration with the Singapore Tyler Print Institute.