Story behind the painting (Part 6) - Kuching Reservoir Park.

Kuching Reservoir Park
Mixed Media, 22 cm x 29 cm, 1982.

 MOOD 2nd SOLO ~

Story behind the painting (Part 6) - Reservoir Park, Kuching.

The  Kuching Reservoir Park is located at Pearse Road, a 10 minutes walking distance from Kuching City centre. There is a vivid and memorable story that I would like to share here of the park which I painted in mixed media ( water colour, felt pen and crayons) way back in 1982. This painting , now 40 years old is still in my custody. 

When I painted the scenery, the railings were still there , fixed on top of the reservoir wall then to allow visitors to have a higher view of the ponds below.  The dam was erected more than 100 years ago to store water and filter them for the consumption of Kuching town population.  At the time I did the painting, the former reservoir area merely functions as a public park.

What captivated me then was the interplay of the sun's rays against the juxtaposition of colours of the liles, water, leaves, flowers and the red railings.

I felt happy to have recorded the park 40 years ago in a painting as testimony of me being there - "I was here".