Khalid Othman

penambang1 Water Taxi Brunei Acrylic on Canvas 2012

The Ph Tricycle 2015 Acrylic on Canvas 90 x 90cm

Street Hawker 2 Brunei Acrylic on Canvas 60 x 48in 2011 Bali Dancer Mixed Media on Canvas 47 x 47cm 2018

The Pandemic Mixed Media on Canvas 80 x 80cm 2021

On the first hand, I don’t really set myself doing art based on any one subject. As I have the habit of making sketches about the environment and people, I used to be everywhere making sketches of what strikes my mind. Sometimes I stop and drew quick portraits of faces that I like, sometimes I capture groups of people eating, drinking or talking.

These sketches are sometimes left unattended and sometimes developed into a more in depth study and become another idea for my next work. Most of my subjects are about people and their daily activities, their interaction within themselves. Seldom I try to connect the images that I draw to the social issues around but at times the issues emerged from the finished work. I did not put the issues first and find the right image. My intention of capturing many movements of the people is to redesigned it again into another composed images that can become an art which I like. I will try to change the shapes, or switched to another area and become another interesting composition.

My habit of making initial sketches for an artwork based on the exploration of the power of lines, flexibility of shapes and the nature of forms contribute to the way my paintings is done. Sometimes I see no definite shapes to the objects. I simply capture the basic movement of the subject through the size of the brush. I just like to see the beauty of the brush strokes which create the desired forms of the subject.

Theb Green Zone Jakarta Acrylic on Canvas 2015 Floating Ride Acrylic on Canvas 80 x 80cm 2017