The timed auction ends Thursday August 6th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Ah Min Leong
View from Kampung Sting, 2025
Oil on Canvas
Height 91 cm x Width 121 cm
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $3,700
We had reached Kampung Sting on a trek in Sarawak, resting for the evening, when the sky simply caught fire — long bands of vermilion and orange ripping through deep stormy blue, all of it reflected in the dark glass of the reservoir below. The mountains had already gone to silhouette, a soft black line stretching across the whole horizon, and the water held the entire sky upside down like a second painting underneath the first. Working with oils, I let the sky carry the colour at full strength — those reds, the molten yellow at the horizon, the bruised blues above — and kept the foreground and ridges in solid darks so nothing would compete with the burning centre. A few thin grasses leaned in along the lower edge to remind you that you were really standing somewhere, looking. There's a kind of sunset particular to the Borneo highlands, almost operatic, and to watch one is to feel briefly that the world is being staged just for you. I painted it so you could have one too.
Artist Bio: Min Leong is a painter born in Kuching, Malaysia and based in Sydney. His work centres on landscape from Malaysian forests to Australian coastlines. His paintings demonstrate a confident, expressive approach to colour — often pushing beyond naturalistic palettes into saturated purples, pinks, and oranges that capture the intense light of the Australian environment.
Leong gravitates toward subjects that emphasise the vertical and the immersive: towering eucalypts seen from below, dense rainforest canopies, and expansive vistas from elevated viewpoints. His work conveys a direct engagement with place and an interest in how light transforms the familiar into something vivid and heightened.