Born in Malaysia in 1944, he is currently the director of the Loh Hok Seng Art Museum and the permanent honorary chairman of the Asia Artists Association, Malaysia. He graduated from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore in 1965. In 1966, he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, and at the same time studied the latest printmaking techniques with the famous printmaker Stanley Willian Hayter (1901-1988) at Studio XVII in Paris.