KUCHING, March 24 -- The Hoan Gallery has held an art preview of one of the best local artists, Bong Shin Siong, and his enormous piece of artwork called Flora and Fauna of Borneo.

A special preview session held at the gallery located in the La Promenade Mall along the Kuching-Samarahan Expressway here yesterday was attended by the event's guest-of-honour, Datuk Seri Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, who is the state Minister of Tourism, Creative Industry, and Performing Arts.

Bong's enormous watercolour masterpiece is painted on a single scroll, measuring 9.84 metres long with over 132 species of Borneo's flora and fauna.

The art piece, said the 68-year-old artist from Lundu, depicts Borneo's rich biodiversity which brings back his childhood...