Raymond Yap

Raymond Yap was born in 1966, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He achieved a BA (Hons) Fine Art, Wimbledon School of Art and a Post  Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy School.

"I am a process painter and my work evolves and comes into being through a combination of factors driven by the painting process.This process requires a series of decisions which include the choice of type and colour of paint, the method of application, application time and drying time and the variety and frequency of my interventions during the process. Depending upon the chosen medium and its inherent properties, all these processes are mutable and open to the play of chance and the exigencies of time. My images are ‘littered with incident’ and although I exert a degree of control in order to facilitate these ‘incidents’, their consequences are very much open to the play of chance and their history becomes a fascinating series of encounters between control and chance, between the ordered and the arbitrary. It is this tension between the appearance of order arrived through the surrender to spontaneity and chance that gives these works a certain torsion."

The Traceries of Time: The Paintings of Raymond Yap