Women In Art: Peisy Ting

Simple and bold compositions conjure a range of emotions through organized arrangements of colour, shape and form

Art is often described as a social commentary. The FLUX Exhibition, which is one of London’s leading exhibitions aimed at discovering the most talented, dynamic painters, sculptors, and performing artists is where some of the most powerful and persuasive art is showcased yearly. Amongst them this year is our very own Kuala Lumpur-based, Peisy Ting.

Eve Writes | 11 March 2019

Life & Culture : Women In Art

Growing up in a multi-ethnic Malaysia, Peisy claimed she did not set out to be an artist.

Yet, her hidden passion for art and design has actually led her to UK where she graduated in Visual Communications in 1999. For more than a decade she worked as a designer, creative director and consultant in various international advertising agencies.

Naturally, talents in Creative Agencies are known to create works that act as windows, providing insight and focus on complex subjects, offering unique interpretations, and raising provocative questions for the viewer.

The experience perhaps ignited something in her for she took the plunge in exiting her career to concentrate on her artistic skills.

Even though she claimed she was never a “serious artist” before she left the advertising world, Peisy has always been comfortable with a paintbrush and has in fact created several artworks in her time. While previously, it may just be her exploration of colors and shapes, these artworks served as escapism and only to be displayed in her home. As expressed by herself on her website, becoming an artist was not something she thought would be her next career.

In 2016, Peisy dedicated her time to produce her first series of contemporary art. The inspiration derived from a combination of her experience in a multicultural upbringing. This experience and skills are articulately translated in her work where they are a cornucopia of colors, strokes, shapes, and expressions – all working and reaching out to each other to create stunning and visually stimulating works of art.

Since becoming a full-time artist, she has done four previous exhibitions, the most recent being Painting From The Heart: Art For Good, a group exhibit held in BSC Shopping Centre, Bangsar on 20 February 2019. This exhibition, organized by the Society for the Severely Mentally Handicapped Malaysia (SSMH), is a charity art exhibition to raise funds and further awareness of the Society’s initiatives.

Through her work, Peisy is looking to effectively invoke innate experience from the observer through simple and bold compositions.

Her ‘Artist Statement’ described her work as "being in a continuous state of evolution where she balances intention and intuition". If one takes a look at Peisy’s work, it’s astounding how one is taken for a rollercoaster ride of emotions and thoughts where her paintings can almost always incite different feelings each time a viewer looks at it.

Mask of Solitude - Triptych

There’s always something to discover, something to ponder, and definitely something to admire.

Naturally driven by personal convictions, her body of work acts as reflectors, translators, and mediators of societal issues, including gender equality, cultural and social identity, environmental awareness and globalization. It is perhaps the eye she refined in her years working as an Art Director. Having the experience to visually stimulate her viewers through advertising, Peisy seems to effortlessly transfer that skill to her paintings, each allowing itself to emote and invoke feelings.

"I believe art is a universal language and a celebration of humanity, which is why I use abstract elements as a universal communicators of joy, sorrow, strength, and vulnerability; conflict and peace.

Peisy Ting

Fractured Sanity - Triptych | Mixed media acrylic triptych

Conscious Interlude | Mixed media acrylic on stretched canvas

New World Order

How the world may look like in the next millennia is reflected in a singular flag that represents all humanity -

one world, one nation, one love.

Shadow of Desire

Do we trust our motives when approaching the unknown? Is there enough strength behind one's yearning to reveal our true feelings?

Shutters of Awakening

Darkness and intransigence may sometimes block our views and obscure our thoughts. However, it takes conscious and sustained effort to understand the intended message insofar that our minds may eventually be enlightened.

As one of About Eve’s favorite Women In Art, we believe Peisy is destined to make Malaysians proud. While her strokes and signature are unmistakable, we believe there’s still so much more in Peisy that she has yet to let out. Each of her work is a testament of how much she values growth and learning so we’re always excited to see what she is going to produce next.

The FLUX Exhibition starts this week on 17th March. Learn more by visiting their website here.

About Eve stole a minute of Peisy’s time to have some fun with these questions.

Check it out and learn more about this edgy and resilient artist!

1. What is your main inspiration?

Everything - from an image to a song, a movie scene, a pattern of a bug, a feeling...

2. Best way to decompress and destress?

Muay Thai :-)

3. If you could switch lives with someone for a day who would it be?

A rockstar!

4. What makes you smile the most?

Cats

5. If you could meet one artist, from past o present, who would it be?