KOTA KINABALU: From early on, Wong Yee Ting was gifted athletically, representing Sabah and the country as a national sprinter in her teens.
She was acknowledged as the fastest woman in Borneo when she was 15, with her highest achievement representing Malaysia twice – in the Asean School in 1986 and the Asian Junior Track and Field in 1987 for the 4x100 relay category.Today, Ting, as she is professionally known in the artistic world, has traded laps around the track to sea voyages, hiking and jungle treks around the world to catch wildlife in action and immortalise them in her paintings.
“I feel privileged to be from Borneo, the third largest island in the world with abundant nature and wildlife. I feel proud to show our fascinating and enchanting animals to the world.Since a very young age, Ting has always enjoyed doodling in her story books and school text books, doing graffiti on the wall or furniture with pencils, crayons and ball pens, she said.
“It was a dream come true to paint birds like those we marvelled at in natural history books, though I paint in an expressive rather than the scientifically accurate style. Presently besides Malaysian buyers, Ting’s artworks have been bought by art enthusiasts and businesses from Germany, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, France and New Zealand, to name a few.“They knew of my work from social media, word of mouth, during my travels or from exhibitions,” she said adding that she has a strong following in Denmark where she travelled to a lot.
Ting’s latest endeavour is her solo exhibition Enchanted Garden launched on April 2, where over 50 pieces of her artworks are showcased at Art Attic, located in downtown Kota Kinabalu, until April 30.
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