Kelvin’s paintings combine his distinctive Borneo influenced motifs and vibrant palette. Within this work, Kelvin energizes the scene composed of Sirung hat motifs from Sabah and Pua Kumbu motifs uniformly executed across the canvas. The diversity of colours reflects the uniqueness of Borneo culture in the context of unity and harmony. Kelvin was educated in Fine Art at the Malaysian Institute of Art (1992 to 1994) and has been a full time artist ever since. His first solo, Belawing and the Great Mamat, was held at Pelita Hati Gallery of Art in 1996 and this was followed up by another titled Idea#9. There was a longer gap until he came up with Planet of the Masks at the Aoyama Gallery in Petaling Jaya in 2002 and it was a decade again before his next major solo, Old Masks Modern Man, at Moma Fine Arts Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. In 1994, Kelvin Chap won the 1st Prize in the Swatch ‘Street Painting’ Competition and in 2001, he won the Juror’s Choice (Malaysia) at the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards. He was selected for major international exhibitions such as the RUPA Malaysia in London in 1998; Gema: Resonance in Prague, Czech Republic in 1998; the Asian Art Biennale in Bangladesh in 1999; and Titian Budaya in Brunei in 2006. Kelvin has exhibited at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 in the Malaysia Pavillion in China. His works are held in the collections of Petronas Gallery, Sabah State Gallery, Hilton Hotel Malaysia and in Chamalieres, France. His artworks have been published in Arts of Southeast Asia by Fiona Kerlogue in 2004, and in the Atlas of World Art by John Onians also in 2004. Kelvin’s works were exhibited in the Kuala Lumpur Biennial 2017 at the National Art Gallery Malaysia.