Born in Amoy, China in 1912, Lim Cheng Hoe came to Singapore when he was 7. Primarily a self-taught artist, Lim studied art under Richard Walker, Singapore’s first Art Inspector of Schools, at the Raffles Institution in the early 1930s. Lim was a prominent and significant first generation artist due to his treatment of the local landscape in the watercolour medium and is associated with the Nanyang Style. He was also a founding member of the Singapore Watercolour Society. Lim passed away in 1979 in Singapore.Save for the few years Lim studied art under Richard Walker, he was largely self-taught. He looked at art publications and believed in the virtue of practice. In order to better his skill in the representation of form, Lim studied the human figure by doing life drawings and portraits.
