Siang Hon got into watercolour about the time he went overseas for work in mid-2000, where he was based in a relatively remote part of China. The beauty of the people and landscape inspired him to capture them through painting. As he had no formal training, he relied on watercolour publications, including Robert Wade and Ong Kim Seng’s books in the past, and more recently, online tutorials by watercolour masters such as Alvaro Castagnet and Joseph Zbukvic. He loves the transparency and fluidity of water to apply paint on paper, and while most unforgiving as a medium to work with, he is always surprised when “happy accidents” turn into a thing of beauty. In many ways, he sees this as a parallelism of life, where things that go wrong can turn out into blessings when we have the patience to wait and trust in the Divine. He has participated in the SWS’ 54th and 55th exhibitions previously.