The enchanting face of a young person with a serene expression and charming brown eyes occupies most of the canvas space, suffused with the ethereal glow of light. This work is composed of triangular shaped tessellations with colour gradations built to enhance a sense of three dimensionality. Marvin employed a soft rosy palette with light tones oscillating between pink, brown, cream, and beige.
Marvin Chan has made the transition from an advertising practitioner to a visual artist in his first solo called First Harvest at a2 Gallery, Penang in 2007. He was a twice recipient of the Freeman Fellowship in Vermont in the United States, first with a partial grant in 2007, and then as an alternate artist in 2008 to 2010. He was also selected for the Commonwealth Connections art residency in 2009, the year in which he also won the BP Portrait Award. He has exhibited in numerous group shows, including Presenting the F KLUB, Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore (2019), MASIF 2011 at Galeri Petronas and a solo show at Wei-Ling Gallery in 2010 titled Inconsequential Consequences of Hope. Besides exhibiting in Malaysia, his artworks have been shown in London, South Korea and are held in private collections in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, the United States and Italy.