For most of us, when we come face something beautiful, we take a photograph. Then there are those who just take in what they see, experiencing the "now" with the beautiful. Penny Wong however etches what she sees in her mind and reproduces her visions boldly on canvas. And she has many opportunities to be with beautiful sights as she travels more than most of us – she is an air stewardess for a local airline. Working with people of different national origins, genders and faiths, Penny see inherent beauty in all the different countries she visits, the difference do not separate but "connect us". Over time, her paintings reflect her broad visual and emotional responses to beauty.

Penny's beauties have a haunting quality, mostly of clusters of buildings so colorful it is as if they had been bathed in rainbows. While most artists are attracted to paint old, deconstructed landscape to register artistic misery, Penny's landscapes are seen through her sunny shades. Even though human figures are hardly visible, the paintings hum with life. Still structures vibrate with colors so strong you cannot look away. Occasional human figures or boars are dotted to give the environment and structures such prominence the viewer feels invited to get lost in them.

"It is during my European trips that I constantly collect information that feeds into, and becomes the subject matter of my paintings. From the picturesque, lavender filed in front of Grignan castle in Provence, or the sunset view over Greek islands, to the colourful villages in South Italy and Germany's meandering Mosel River," Penny remembers with her brush and palette knife. "I have a fascination with bold colours and lines, and the impact they have on eyes that see my works. I can see my work ignite viewer's curiosity and draw them to look and almost investigate the details I create." Penny's works are not just colourful with lines; she studies and executes impasto surfaces to produce textured colours, patterns and contracts that are vivid and vibrant experimenting with liner and aerial perspectives.

Looking at her creations, it is difficult to believe that Penny sees every canvas as "a struggle". "I get inspired by Pissarro, Cezanne, Matisse and Mondrian, and I just feel the climb is so high compared to these great creators." For the viewers of her canvases, it's enough that her creations come from deep within her, her desire to create. Says curator Woon Tai Ho, " Penny doesn't quite see what other see in her works, which is a unique ability to create scenes she records, initially through photography, sketches followed by research. Then she allows he process to filter through the happy lens in her mind. The result is meticulous and technically sharp works without drawing attention to the effort put it. The eyes see just joy, without bringing in human smiles or green nature. Instead, she has been able to bring smile to our eyes with structures of buildings and castle in her mind. I think when she paints she pays tribute to Europe and she remembers just rainbows."