Ang Ah Tee 洪亞弟
Rattan Shop, watercolour on paper, 43x43cm, 1987
Sultan Mosque, watercolour on paper, 43x43cm, 1984
Victoria Memorial Hall, watercolour on paper, 43x43cm, 1982
View from Sentosa, acrylic on canvas, 80x80cm, 2023
Still Life with Pumpkin, acrylic on canvas, 60x60cm, 2009
Mama Stall, acrylic on canvas, 80x70cm, 2024
Boon Tat St, acrylic on canvas, 80cm x 70cm, 2023
Lotus, acrylic on canvas, 92x122cm
Boat Quay, acrylic on canvas, 60x76cm, 2002
Good Old Days, acrylic on canvas, 60x76cm, 2025
Ang Ah Tee’s trademark abstract landscapes are characterised by their vividness, which is a result of his direct random brushwork and personal colour scheme distilled through the years. He began exploring a new way of expression in his artworks since the early 90s where his works developed into semi-abstraction.
Ang was recipient of the National Day Art Exhibition Award in 1978 and in 2001, and won the first prize in Western Painting of Tan Tsze Chor Art Award. For his considerable achievements in visual arts, Ang was conferred the Cultural Medallion by the Singapore Government in 2009.
Ang Ah Tee was born in Singapore in 1943. While he was a student at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts from 1960 to 1962, he was mentored by the pioneer artists Cheong Soo Pieng and Georgette Chen.
He has held numerous solo exhibitions, and his works had been exhibited in various countries. His talent was recognized in 1977 when he was awarded the National Day Art Award by the Ministry of Culture, Singapore. In the same year, due to his passion towards painting, he became a full-time artist. This had given him a chance to travel the world which was an adventurous undertaking during that time.
Ang is known for his abstract and landscape acrylic paintings of a highly distinctive style. Although, as a landscape painter, who seeks inspiration from his extensive travels around the world’s most magnificent sceneries, a lot of his works are often local street scenes which he has a heartfelt attachment to. Working spontaneously and traveling widely in search of inspiration and looking for new subjects to paint. His semi-abstraction in expression of art form in recent years has entered a new era; that of combining western elements with Chinese ink strokes.