Self-taught calligrapher wins competition

Chee Lian Hock, 46, is a self-taught calligrapher has been honing his skills for the over 20 years. 

He practises the art of calligraphy with devotion spending a minimum of two hours daily on perfecting his skills. 

Chee said, “To become a skilled calligrapher, one needs to cultivate patience, discipline and passion for the art. 

Calligraphy is also a form of exercise as it calls for one to exert and control one’s energy and inner strength when creating the variation and width with the strokes of one’s brush.”

Chee was the first runner up for a calligraphy and coloring competition organized by the Johor Bahru Hainan Association (Youth Section) held at the KSL shopping complex in Johor Bahru recently.

Video & Story by Lee-Jean & MK Ong, Citizen Journalists