Juping spent his leisure time sketching and painting and was known to enter rooftops in search of breath-taking views for his compositions. Here, he presents an expressive drawing from his excursions. Juping illustrates a picturesque scene of rooftops and lofty textured walls of old houses silhouetted against an open sky. Juping rendered the architectural forms in swift agile strokes, imbuing the composition with dynamism and a feeling of immediacy and movement. Kuo Juping (the name was taken after a water plant) was in the pioneering batch of students at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore but had to return a year before graduating to tend to his father’s import-export business, Sing Guan Thye & Co. He was a founding member of Thursday Art Group and Penang Chinese Art Club in 1936. He was one of the first artists to paint ordinary people and places such as rubber estates, oil palms, cocoa plantations, paddy fields, kampung and make-shift hawker centres. He was a mentor of Tan Choon Ghee (1930-2010) who became a legendary watercolourist.