Tayep Bin Yop Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1931 -

Tayep Yop’s style of painting is mainly influenced by the motives and shapes of Malay culture such as wau, batik, the carvings of traditional kampong houses as well as nature. In the late 1980s, his style evolved into surrealism illustrating landscape in imaginative colours with various shapes coherently organised.

Tayep Yop began as batik artist in the 1960s. He presented his first show at the Festival of Penang in 1970. He represented Malaysia in a Batik Painting Festival in California, USA in 1978. He has participated in more than a hundred exhibitions throughout Malaysia over the years. Between the 1990s and beyond 2000, his style has progressed to reflect with his spiritual connection focusing on khat, the Islamic calligraphy.