Born in Singapore in 1919, Sun Yee studied at the Xinhua Art Academy in Shanghai and the University of Japan in Tokyo before going to France where she studied with noted French modernist, Fernand Leger. Her works have been met with exhibition successes in France and Japan. A competent artist of Chinese brush and oil medium, she had exhibited at the Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1953. Having settled in Singapore since 1954, she established the Singapore Academy of Arts and was an active participant in the emerging Malayan art world. Her first exhibition in Singapore took place in 1954 after which she traveled extensively in Malaya, Thailand and Borneo, studying and painting local landscapes and subjects. In her art and writings, Sun Y...