The timed auction ends Thursday September 10th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Ah Min Leong
Silhouette Hour #2, 2026
Oil on Canvas
Height 97 cm x Width 71.5 cm
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $2,300
I came back to the same hour and the sky was doing something completely different again, ribbed with little horizontal clouds catching coral, rose and lavender, a thin band of orange light burning along the horizon. The bare branches in front of me became a dark vertical lattice drawn on top of the sky's last colour. Working with oils on a tall canvas, I worked those striations of warm and cool against each other — apricot against violet, salmon against deep mauve — and let the branches stay irregular and alive, a few stubborn leaves still hanging on as small dark notes. There's a real intimacy to evening, the way colour deepens and the world quiets at the same time. I wanted you to feel that pause, the moment of looking up through whatever's nearest to you and finding the sky has gone uncommonly tender.
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:
97 cm x 71.5 cm