The Artist
Tricia
Woo
A Malaysian botanical artist working with real pressed and preserved plant material. Chinese-language media publish her as 余曉惜, written 余晓惜 in simplified Chinese.
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Practice
Botanical material
as image.
Tricia Woo’s practice developed through floral design, sustained study of pressed botanical material and pictorial composition.
Pressed material is not simply decoration applied to a picture; it is the substance from which the picture is built.
Petals, leaves, stems and preserved botanical fragments are selected for colour, line, texture and structure, then composed into finished pictorial works. Their physical character remains visible rather than being digitally disguised.
Selected Chronology
Practice
over time.
Only documented milestones are included; the chronology will expand as source records are verified.
- 2 Apr 2012 · TaiwanDocumented as a Malaysian pressed-flower instructor who had already obtained a pressed-flower certificate
- 2014 · TaiwanFurther one-month intensive pressed-flower training
- Later · Kuala LumpurFurther study and development of pressed-flower practice
- End 2018 · TaipingReturned to Taiping; continued creating and teaching while operating Sojourn Beds & Cafe
- 26 Jul–4 Aug 2024 · TaipingPressed-flower introduction exhibition at Sojourn during Taiping’s 150th-anniversary year · preview, opening and closing documented in Malaysian Chinese-language press · View exhibition record
The 2012 Taiwan record establishes documented practice by at least 2012. The 2014 Taiwan course is therefore treated as further training rather than the beginning of the practice. Later milestones are supported by published Malaysian Chinese-language press and other verified records.
Record
Continuity
matters.
Historical works are retained because an artist’s development is easier to understand when the record is not repeatedly erased by redesigns.
The permanent archive currently documents works from 2017, 2019 and 2020. Original titles and other details that cannot yet be supported by documentation are marked as under verification rather than reconstructed from memory.
Confirmed external records establish Tricia’s public practice by at least 2012, while independent press coverage currently documents the practice from 2018 through 2024.
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