Ong Choon Hoo is a professional watercolorist who has been painting since 1983. He is renowned for painting scenes such as riverside boats in fishing villages, and old towns. This work features a unique composition at a dockyard, focusing on a workshop area for the repair and maintenance of boats and vessels. Choon Hoo had won the Gold Medal in the Imaginative Art competition organised by the Penang Normal Chinese Senior Teachers Association in 1983 and the Minor Painting Award in the Penang Pesta Young Talent competition in 1994. Apart from his hometown in Bukit Mertajam in Penang, he travels to Kelantan (Kemamam), Perak (Ipoh, like the pottery factory), Selangor (Pulau Ketam) and Malacca to paint. He was among the artists who painted the Kampung Buah Pala settlement before the houses were torn down in September 2009 and the Artists for Heritage: New Views of Old Penang at Intec College to mark the UNESCO Conference-Workshop in 1999. Choon Hoo had solos at the Galeri Seri Mutiara, Penang (Survival Of Old Traditions, 2012) and PINKGUY gallery, Kuala Lumpur (Lancar, 2017). His art has been exhibited in numerous international group shows in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia.