AN EXPRESSIVE AND THERAPEUTIC WAY TO ENJOY NATURE.
WISHING YOU A FABULOUS NATURE FILLED NEW YEAR, with HAPPINESS, PEACE AND GOOD HEALTH.
Tham Pui San
31 Dec 2016
Wonderful World of Waders Art Exhibition September 5, 2016
This coming weekend you will get to enjoy not only real waders which have started their annual migration to Sungei Buloh but also get a chance to visit an art exhibition of Waders artfully depicted for you to enjoy by the Buloh Dabblers.
SKETCHING WADERS of Sungei Buloh WEtlands June 19, 2016
I am conducting a special session on bird sketching and painting this coming Sunday 26 June, at the WETLANDS CENTRE( the old Visitor Centre) from 0830 to 11am, in the classroom. Its to equip you with skills to draw and sketch waders found in Sungei Buloh. You may bring any materials, but pencils are just fine too.
Hope to see you there.
Kranji Marshes May 31, 2016
We were so fortunate to experience the marshes at Kranji, specially arranged for our Buloh Dabblers to enjoy the reserve and to produce artworks for future use.
This was the demo artwork done for the participants.
14th Anniversary as a Volunteer in our wetlands February 23, 2016
Today I celebrate my 14 years as a volunteer at our Sungei Buloh Wetlands.
There is something special about this reserve that kept me interested and to continue to express what I feel should be recorded and shared. The fauna (birds in particular) and the mudflat creatures are my favourites. The changes in the flora environment captures my attention too.
Here is my painting I did this morning at the Main Hide, and enjoying yet another beautiful start to my 15th year of volunteering with the sight and sound of migratory birds flying past me now and then.
Volunteer Spotlight in Happy Hands e-magazine issue 7 june 2015 May 27, 2015
Happy Hands, an e-magazine, by the Ministry of National Development featured Tham Pui San in their Volunteer Spotlight :
http://www.mnd.gov.sg/happyhands/Apr2015/Happy-Hands-Building-An-Endearing-Home-Issue-7-An-e-newsletter-for-Friends-of-the-MND-Family.pdf
E magazine feature in Min of National Development, Happy Hands, Isssue 7
A will to survive…tale of a Mangrove apple tree April 17, 2015
Guided Fernvale students along this route; they loved the sketch and learn something about wetlands.
Sonneratia alba aka Mangrove apple
On the right is the mangrove apple tree that is growing well after the life saving chop off of the upper portion of its main trunk.
2 water colour sketches of the older parts of Sungei Buloh March 13, 2015
The old Cafeteria building and Visitor Centre at Sungei Buloh Wetland
and the mudflats around there
Sketching shorebirds on my flight to Osaka October 13, 2014
To while away the long flight hours, and hotel hours, doodling and sketching from memory helps. The flight seems so much shorter, and waiting was productive, and I get to test my retained knowledge of the birds.
Here are some attempts
Art in Wetlands 