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Ah Min Leong
Kampung Biya Sapit Sunrise #3, 2025
Oil on Canvas
Height 91 cm x Width 122 cm
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $3,700
This third view from Kampung Biya Sapit I painted the deck itself — a small mountainside café strung with fairy lights, a couple already up at the railing with their coffee, a row of empty stools waiting for the next sleepy arrivals. Beyond them the valley was full of cloud, the mountains were folding into peach and lavender, and the sun was doing that slow Borneo thing of taking forever to commit. Working with oils, I let the timber deck flame with reflected pink and red light, almost as if it were holding the sunrise as much as the sky was, and kept the figures small and quiet — they're not the subject, the morning is.
I wanted to capture that particular Sarawak hospitality of a place that gives you a chair, a hot drink, and a sky you'll remember for the rest of your life. Some mornings are simply gifts. This was one of them.
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.
Dimensions:
91 cm x 122 cm