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Ruth Ng Lee Gek

Ruth Ng Lee Gek, a contemporary artist of Singapore had her first solo public show at the Singapore’s National Museum Art Gallery in 1977 and many shows since in Singapore and once overseas in Indonesia.  As a life-long Art Educator for making art alive in the community, painting is her joyful playground of unstoppable adventures and actions. Her abstract paintings are like moments of songs created intuitively.

Her current solo exhibition this year featured 12 acrylic paintings of “The Ocean Song” hosted by the Baptist Book Café, 01-25 Goldhill Plaza Singapore where anyone in the community can walk in to enjoy a conversation on her art stories at the café art gallery over a cup of coffee or tea.

Education

1968 Teachers’Training College (now National Institute of Education),
Singapore
(also studied Ceramics Art with Iskandar Jalil;
Drawing Painting & Design with artists: Chia Wai Hon, Choy Weng Yang,
Sng Cheng Kiat & Sim Tong Kern)
1979 Teachers’Training College (now National Institute of Education),
Singapore
(also studied Ceramics Art with Iskandar Jalil;
Drawing Painting & Design with artists: Chia Wai Hon, Choy Weng Yang,
Sng Cheng Kiat & Sim Tong Kern)
1982  Singapore Bible College (special courses)
2010 Summer School at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada
Experience
1971 Art Educator in Secondary Schools
1991 Commonwealth Secondary Schoo
1988 ASPACAE
2001 MOE Art Education Seminars
2006 MOE School Leaders Summit

Exhibitor

1976 Colour” International Artists Exhibition curated by Constance Sheares at
Art Gallery, National Museum Singapore.
1977 Solo Show: “Ng Lee Gek”Art Exhibition at Art Gallery, National Museum
Singapore
1970 Yearly Singapore National Day Art Exhibitions for Singapore Artists
organised by Singapore Ministry of Culture
1979 Yearly Singapore National Day Art Exhibitions for Singapore Artists
organised by Singapore Ministry of Culture
1992 Raffles Hotel Jubilee Theatre Official Opening Art Exhibition by 4 Singapore
Art Teachers
1992 Raffles Hotel Jubilee Theatre Official Opening Art Exhibition by 4 Singapore
Art Teachers
2006 International Artists Exhibition at Lombok Indonesia
2019 Solo Show: featuring 19 acrylic paintings on“Water” at German Centre, 2020 Singapore hosted by Watch Water PTE Ltd
2021 Solo Show featuring 12 acrylic paintings on“My Ocean Songs” at Baptist
Book Café Art Gallery Goldhill Plaza, Singapore

2021

Acrylic Painting on Canvas

60*50CM

Dancing Fish

In this painting, ‘Dancing Fish’, my heart sings for joy as I wave the paintbrush, my joyful heart leaps on the canvas in vibrant colours, like a school of fish dancing in the water. Come, fix your eyes on this picture, enjoy this moment and let beauty and joy become the melody of your life.

JOY OF LIFE (1) 

Acrylic Painting on Canvas

20×15 cm

 This is a series of acrylic paintings on canvas boards created to celebrate my joy of life melody in brilliant colours and dancing brush movements as God’s joy is my strength and song forever!

JOY OF LIFE (2) 

Acrylic Painting on Canvas

20×15 cm

 This is a series of acrylic paintings on canvas boards created to celebrate my joy of life melody in brilliant colours and dancing brush movements as God’s joy is my strength and song forever!

JOY OF LIFE (3) 

Acrylic Painting on Canvas

20×15 cm

 This is a series of acrylic paintings on canvas boards created to celebrate my joy of life melody in brilliant colours and dancing brush movements as God’s joy is my strength and song forever!

JOY OF LIFE (4) 

Acrylic Painting on Canvas

20×15 cm

 This is a series of acrylic paintings on canvas boards created to celebrate my joy of life melody in brilliant colours and dancing brush movements as God’s joy is my strength and song forever!

JOY OF LIFE (5) 

Acrylic Painting on Canvas

20×15 cm

 This is a series of acrylic paintings on canvas boards created to celebrate my joy of life melody in brilliant colours and dancing brush movements as God’s joy is my strength and song forever!

Windy
2019
 Acrylics on Canvas
 Capturing refreshing moments of wind blowing and fascinated by it coming and going from where I know not.

The River of Life
 1980
 Acrylics on Canvas
A poetic painting sharing what I saw in the River of Life in Revelation 22:, when I imagined I saw the glittering crystal clear waters of the river of life there and painted it like a song or a poem! Though I did not paint fishes but the fishes appeared, as it is the river of life!

 Easter Changed Everything!
2013
Acrylics on Canvas
One Easter Sunday, I heard a sermon “Easter Changed Everything” and was so excited that I went home and painted this colourful composition recalling the first words the Lord Jesus spoke to his disciples: “Peace be unto you!”

 “Reunion”
2022
28 cm circle
 Acrylics & Pencil Colours on Chinese Rice Paper 
How beautiful & lovely whenever people and life reunite…especially returning to God! The celebration of hope love and joy in homecoming is endless envision!