THE ITALIAN HOMAGE
FEATURING SILVIO MORELLI TRATTORIA GALLO D’ORO at Central Mall was recently revamped in the wake of a takeover. The ristorante’s new owner—Silvio Morelli—is a worldly fine dining chef, and having shifted to Singapore from the Caribbean in 2011, also a traveler at heart. Determined to inspire his brethren with his...
MOTIFS TO MOTIVE
FEATURING RIFQI AMIRUL HTTP://RKSN.WEEBLY.COM LOOKING AT RIFQI’S ARTWORK, and back to Francis Bacon’s works, one would be able to understand where his inspirations stemmed from. For those who are familiar with Bacon’s works, they will know how he often disrupts the tranquility and emptiness of the space within the artwork...
ILLUSTRATING THE UNORTHODOX MINDE
FEATURING DONAVAN CHOO ONE WOULD DOUBT that the ever so chilled and laid-back Donavan Choo (better known as Don) is an illustrator with a philosophical mind but he would prove most people wrong. Although running an hour late, Don arrives dressed in a floral tee, shorts, slippers and his trademark bucket...
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
FEATURING LAI YAO KHUAN AND SYK DESIGN FROM STRIKINGLY DETAILED renditions of dragons to fictive alien creatures lurking in the depths of space, from Tolkienian fantasy forests to panoramic cityscapes, from intricately textured paintings of animals to water-colour portraits of the famous and beautiful, from the cartoonish to the macabre, Lai Yao Khuan,...
YOUR STUDIO TROLL
FEATURING NICHOLAS (NICK) ONG IN FOLKLORES, ‘TROLL’ is usually a term used on a cave-dwelling creature depicted as either a giant or a dwarf. However, in reality, ‘troll’ happens to be the best fit for the strong-minded, passionate and lofty Nicholas (Nick) Ong, who is currently a Year 3 Diploma student...