Thomas Yeo is a prominent Singapore second-generation artist. A 1984 Cultural Medallion recipient, Yeo has been an artist for almost 60 years since his first solo exhibition at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1960. Yeo was educated at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Chelsea School of Art (now Chelsea College of Art and Design) and Hammersmith College of Art and Building, where he held his First overseas solo show at the Cathay Gallery, London, in 1963. During his course at NAFA, he studied under pioneer painters such as Georgette Chen and Cheong Soo Pieng. After graduating from the academy in 1960, Yeo spent the past year painting every weekend, building up a collection of about 60 paintings. He decided to hold an exhibition to…