Through a palette of earth colours, elements of cubism and geometric planes were employed to depict nature. Tin Maung Oo started out painting at the age of 23 under the guidance of Bogie, Shwe Oung Thame and Myint Hsan. He worked solely as an artist, never having to sustain himself doing other jobs like teaching or illustrating. His first home solo was at the NM Gallery in Yangon, Myanmar, in 1999 - a good four years after his first solo called In Search of Grace at the Nobel Gallery in Singapore. It is a great loss to the Myanmar art scene when he passed away on July 7, 2021 due to Covid-19. Another famous artist-sculptor Sonny Nyein died on July 20, 2021, also succumbed to Covid-19.