Title: Water Snake

Artist: Nyam Xiao Hui

Description: “This piece of art was done with curve strokes as snakes are wiggly animals. It is also because i feel that this technique to make my snake more outstanding because of the strong colour contrast.”

Title: Sounds of Beauty

Artist: Georgina Poh Hui Shan

Description: “The painting is all about how is is a gift to be able to listen to your surroundings. I used mainly warm colours for the entire painting to bring out the joy and how you can actually be at peace just by listening with your ears. I had also used black painting to outline my work to help bring more focus to the ear. By looking at this painting, you should be able to feel a certain embrace in your heart.”

Title: The Shadow of the Night

Artist: Abigail Goh

Description: “The eyes and the body were to gain attention from the people looking at it. The animal’s eye is painted with bright yellow to bring out the feeling that it was able to see things at night and it is like a shadow looking at you if you were at the same place at night with it. The animal drawn here is not harmful. It is just a small animal that just learnt how to be independent. The eyes and body receive unwanted attention even though it is hiding at night. That’s why the painting is called “The Shadow of the Night”.

Title: Death at Sea

Artist: Siti Aqilah Bte Halil

Description: “This painting shows a surfer surfing at sea with huge fierce looking waves threatening to eat him. The sea has many shades of colour and many different stokes shows the current of the speed. The sky is dark which resembles that something bad is about to happen to the surfer. The red droplets at the side shows droplets of water coming from the wave and also the tear represents people crying, losing their lives. Overall it is a sad painting describing people wanting to have fun but just dying in the end.”

Title: A Couple’s Feeling (Embrace)

Artist: Jacqueline Stansilas

Description: “The drawing represents the life of couples. This inspired me to paint the background pink to represent the ‘love’ atmosphere. The reddish orangey circle represents the warm feelings that is being felt by the couple. The blue represents the globe-planet earth. The feeling that “it” is out of this world. I drew film strips flowing out to represent the movies being played in cinemas,as couples usually go to movies for dates. I realised that the shape of the globe looks like a cresent . The cresent represents night when it is the least busy part of the day. This allows some privacy.”

Title: Express Yourself

Artist: Chelsea Linda Monteiro

Description: “The painting I have done would most probably ask the person looking at it to see which part suits you most. Whether you are cold, cruel, or maybe bright and expressive and how much you know yourself and how much people look at you.”

Title: Transition of Hope

Artist: Shandy Soh & Tiffany Tay

* The artist is a resident in the Singapore Girls’ Home. Her name has been changed in the interest of confidentiality.

Description: “This depicts the transition from iron bars to natural bamboo shoots. The iron bars do not last forever because there is hope for a second chance at life and freedom, which are represented by bamboo shoots and nature.”