Honey Khor Pei Yeou
BIOGRAPHY

1973
Born in Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia

1995
Graduate of Malaysian Institute of Art, Fine Art

2017
Foundation in Art Therapy, Alanus Hochshule

2020 - 2024
Further study at Tobias School of Art and Therapy, UK

MEMBERSHIP
2010 Member of National Art Gallery
Member of Penang Stage Museum &Art Gallery
Member of Penang Art Society
2018 Secretary of Malaysia Creative Oil Painting Association

Experience
Founder and Facilitator of Ever Day Art Studio since 1997.
. Have been giving children therapeutic art classes and adults therapeutic art lessons.

Founder and facilitator for Honey Child Development Centre (Sri Madu) 2004 -2021
. Have been managing tuition classes and the centre s

Volunteer Art teacher and Project Manager for charity art project - “Colors Of Cambodia”, Siem Reap.
.To support and raise funds for Colors of Cambodia community art project, children’s art education and getting sponsorship for schooling items to underprivileged children since 2007

Illustrated and Publicised the book ~ “a Story of Colors of Cambodia”, 2012
. To support and raising fund for Colors of Cambodia charity art project.

Board member of A World of Difference, Charitable foundation base in USA since 2020

Volunteer Art Teacher
. Provided therapeutic art workshops to students with Autistic Spectrum at National Autism Society of Malaysia, Taman Supreme, 2016 to 2018

Curator and Art Facilitator for Zhi Xuan Fine Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Have been giving therapeutic art lessons to differently abled students since 2013

Art Facilitator at Pink Tower Childcare Centre, 2018 - 2023
. Have been giving therapeutic art classes to pre-school children

Secretary of Malaysia Creative Oil Painting Association
. Since 2018.


Teaching Experience

Honey Khor has been engaged with art education since she was sixteen. She graduated from the Malaysian Institute of Art (MIA) and has diligently pursued an art career ever since. Over time, Honey has been exhibited in Joint and solo exhibitions in Malaysia, Singapore, The Philippines, Cambodia, China, Italy and Spain.

As well as teaching art to children and adults for over two decades, Honey has owned and managed her own tuition centre, including her art studio. In 2016 she took a two-year foundation course in Art Therapy with Alanus, and in 2018, she had an internship at Krankenhaus Havelhöhe (Hospital Havelhöhe), Berlin. Since 2020, she further her study in art therapy with Tobias School of Art and Therapy , UK.

In the following years, she had attended art workshop with Joanna Mackenzie from New Zealand, an artist and educator and founding member of the Taruna Teacher Training Course. She have also taken classes with Van James since 2019, a Hawaii based author, teaching artist at the Honolulu Waldorf High School and also a guest instructor at Rudolf Steiner College. Art workshops with Van James are “Waldolf Highschool Art Lessons” (2019), “The Transformative Power of Art” (2020), “Black and White Drawing workshop” (2021), “Veil Painting and The Art of Transferent Colour” (2021) and “The Art and individual of Colour” (2021).

Through the study of Anthroposophy (“wisdom of the human being”), I continue to grow and discover my own unique abilities, getting more deeply in touch with my threefold nature (as a body-mind-soul nexus). This beautiful journey has been most inspiring, bringing me deep insights into all aspects of my life - in my personal development as well as my teaching practice. The Waldorf approach to teaching is definitely fascinating and effective, and I incorporate it into my own methodology on a daily basis. I am totally grateful to have crossed paths with Anthroposophy and how it has enhanced and enriched my lifelong passion for learning and teaching.

I feel that the Waldorf approach shows us the “Way of Life.” I love its cultivation of the sense of beauty and the feeling of peace I have found in Waldorf education, not to mention the way it nurtures and engages each child through a curriculum and methodology that effortlessly integrate academic, artistic and practical skills. It is truly amazing to observe the development of a child from birth to early childhood, how brain growth relates to limb activity, and then the blossoming of heart-knowing between the ages of seven and fourteen through the imagination, followed by the quickening of the mind in adolescence through discernment of the world. All these in-depth studies by Rudolf Steiner have significantly refined our notions of education. By teaching the Waldorf way I find myself becoming a far more well-rounded individual. Leslie Burchell-Fox said: “If someone wants to make a difference in the world, I can’t think of anything more relevant for our times than becoming a Waldorf teacher.” And that the reason I love my job as an art teacher.

Her love for art lead her to join the Cambodian charity Colors of Cambodia, since 2007. She is now the area manager for Colors of Cambodia and board member A World of Different, the charity in USA.