Tee, Lee Chin

LeeChin is a self-taught artist and a stay-at-home mother to two beautiful little humans. She started to paint when she was going through postpartum depression shortly after her twins were born. Painting, to her in the beginning, was merely therapeutic, but eventually, it has become a creative process that brings her a sense of freeing where she found her purpose in learning. Even though she has never received any formal training in traditional art, she is always fascinated by paint textures on canvases, brush strokes, lines and colours. She loves seeing these elements put together on canvases to express all kinds of emotions, mental states, ideas and stories. She admires works of feminist artists such as Frida Kahlo, Hannah Hoch, Georgia O’Keeffe and many contemporary artists including a Taiwanese artist named Wei-Hui. Art saves LeeChin from depression and anxiety. Creating art and painting has become her way of finding calmness and peace and at the same time, a sense of purpose in learning and growing as an artist.