The artist's soul is never completely happy; what it seeks, it knows it never will attain. The standard is not just high, but impossibly so. Yet it is because he is this way that he has come so far, shone this brightly; and he will go on to do so beyond 100 and 101. The soul knows, it is only by aiming at impossible heights that greatness is reached.
Lim Tze Peng has been able to achieve breakthroughs late in life by keeping this spirit alive and well.
A deeper look at the man behind the art and what motivates him to continue even at age 100. The lean beginnings of his early years of love and teaching; the times of controversy over the artist’s innovations in Chinese calligraphy; his breakthroughs.
Read moreHis life started late, everything got going only after the ripe old age of 80. Farmer, teacher, principal and artist, Lim Tze Peng counts Lee Man Fong, Cheong Soo Pieng and Liu Kang as his mentors.
Read moreAt 100, the works are bigger, bolder and more colourful. Some blieve they are his best works, that he is at his innovative and creative best. They call these works created at 100, his "renaissance".
Read moreHis life started late, everything got going only after the ripe old age of 80. Farmer, teacher, principal and artist, Lim Tze Peng counts Lee Man Fong, Cheong Soo Pieng and Liu Kang as his mentors.
Read moreThe book and exhibition pays tribute to the remarkable achievement of Lim Tze Peng’s artistic renaissance at 100.
Read moreRead the speech by Prime Minister
Lee Hsien Loong at the "Soul of Ink:
Lim Tze Peng at 100" book launch and exhibition at the arts house.