Teoh Teck Boo is featured at Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers for the first time with a Photorealist painting titled Immigrant and Superbike deriving from his Thoughts of Thousand Miles series. This large-scale piece is meticulously and realistically rendered in minimal colour palette illustrating a neatly dressed man wearing a cap seated on a curb at a public parking space overlooking a row of shops, one of which has its shutters closed. The composition comprises of the seated figure positioned in between a parked touring motorcycle and a car. The solidarity of the scene evokes a sense of loneliness and silence. The artist takes pleasure in painting anonymous migrant figures, with their backs turned to the viewer unaware of being observed as a reminder of their hardship and adversity away from home. Teoh Teck Boo worked at The Star as an artist in the art department and was enrolled to the Malaysian Institute of Arts (MIA) at the same time in 1979. The following year he received a full scholarship to attend MIA and concentrated on his studies and attained a Diploma in Commercial Art in 1982. He received an Honorable Mention, Pameran Bakat Muda Sezaman, National Art Gallery (1982). From 1983 onwards he worked at various international advertising agencies beginning as a Visualiser and later as Art Director. He has travelled extensively namely to Kazakhstan, South India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Cambodia, London and Australia. One of his artistry fabrication works is the Energizer icons found on KL Monorail pillars in the city.