“The book is not just about Lim Tze Peng, the artist, but also Lim Tze Peng, the man—and what we can all learn from this 100-year-old man,” shares its author Woon Tai Ho during our Zoom interview. “Love is very important to Mr Lim. He says in the book that ‘in life, we must have a higher goal. My higher goal is love.’”
Ai is one of two Chinese characters the painter and calligrapher has written many times, with the other being guo, which is country. The two words put together, ai guo, translates as “love for country”. Lim’s love for his country is apparent in his Chinese ink drawings and paintings of historically significant places such as Chinatown and the Singapore River. And this was recently underlined when he indicated during the book launch in mid-June his intention to donate an entire collection of his works to the country, if given the space to exhibit them.
“When I was young, art was an aspiration. And then it became my life. Today I am old, and art is many things. It is my history, my present and also my hope. And it is my hope that I place the most emphasis. I hope my art can inspire a new generation to treasure their past, and through my art allow them to believe in their own art,” Lim shares.
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