The timed auction ends Thursday September 17th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Ah Min Leong
Kampung Biya Sapit Sunrise #2, 2025
Oil on Canvas
Height 92 cm x Width 56 cm
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $1,700
I came back to the same ridge above Kampung Biya Sapit a second time because once was never going to be enough — and on this morning the cloud-sea was doing something different again, billowing up between the ridges like slow surf, the sun a small dark coin sitting just on the horizon line. The sky was all soft striations of peach, lilac and pale gold, with darker lavender bands threading through like brush hairs. Working with oils, I let the foreground ridges stay vivid and green to ground the painting, then loosened my hand as the eye travelled upward — the sky almost unfinished in places, the way the early light feels when it hasn't quite committed to a colour yet.
Painting the same place again teaches you that no view ever really repeats itself. Light is always making the world new, and our job, painter or viewer, is just to keep showing up for it.
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:
92 cm x 56 cm