Drawn To Murals

The Retro Illustrator Yip Yew Chong yipyc.com

During the week, finance director Yip Yew Chong has his mind on numbers. But on weekends, he has his hands full with paint brushes.

But Mr Yip, 48, is not your artist who dabbles with paint on a canvas. His pieces are bigger. Much bigger.

For the past few weekends, he has been busy painting a 40-m-long mural on the back wall of Thian Hock Keng Temple in Amoy Street. It was a project commissioned by the temple for this year's Hokkien Festival.

The mural depicts scenes of old Singapore, namely coolies loading and unloading goods at the Singapore River, bullock carts transporting water and life in kampongs.

His murals can also be found at Everton Park, Changi Village, Tiong Bahru and Waterloo Stre…