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My ways of painting have no particular styles or concepts. I do not restrict myself or deliberately go looking for a style that would represent my works and me. I have never stop searching for my own style and even until now I have yet to settle myself with one that I like. Most artists or art practitioners would prefer to have a style of their own to represent them. For me, the joy of painting and the process is more important. Ever changing and continuing to explore is how and what I preferred. The feelings at that present moment while painting is what I enjoyed.

Concept to me is something that I would say that I am always having difficulties. I would always question myself about the important of having a concept and whether we really need one, in fact. Simplicity is the keyword for all my works. Most of my works are very simple and it required no deep thoughts to understand them. My style is also my concept, not complicated yet it represents me. I prefer to paint for myself and recognition is not important to me at all.

My style of teaching art is not to restrict and control. I always believe in letting them explore and develop their own style and characteristic. I have seen a lot of artworks from students with very good techniques but lack the souls and characteristic. In art, it is really different from the rest of the subject that would always have a fixed and systematic ways of instructions. Teaching art requires flexibility and observance from an art teacher or educator. Every class, stream, lever and even every individual must be put into consideration. The styles of teaching must be constantly modified to suit different needs and abilities. To be observance actually means to be able to understand one’s potential and development and guide them to achieve their goals not according to your preferences but to theirs. A piece of work whether good or bad should not determine the abilities of the students, they should be judged according to their progress over the lessons to see how much they would improve and absorb.

In conclusion, always challenge the students by giving them more challenging task as to bring out their full potential. But at the same time, challenge them according to their abilities and within their means as a more difficult task might demoralize them if they failed to achieve it.