In 2014, Lim began to take lessons from Phoon Poh Wai.  They focused on oils as the painting medium.  Phoon was an exceptional painting tutor who was very different from the art college instructor whose teaching was guided by a structured curriculum.  Phoon’s artistic background was inimitable: a graduate of the prestigious St Martin College of Art in London where he majored in painting; a tour through Europe’s authoritative art museums of consequence where he surveyed their important permanent art collections – the National Gallery, London; the Musee du Lourve, Paris and Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam among them and what made Phoon’s teaching revealing and tantalizing was the fact that Phoon in the midst of his lessons, would highlight inspiring accounts of how brilliant artists in history of European art painted intriguing masterworks which stood the test of time, amongst Phoon’s favourites English painter, William Turner’s turbulent dramatic seascapes, 19^th century; Dutch painter, Rembrandt’s self-portraits, 17^th century and French Impressionist, Claude Monet’s awe-inspiring services of water-lilies early 20^th century, after returning to Singapore, Phoon started to collect seriously; the scope of art-collecting in South East Asia was breadth taking magnitude.  Phoon became one of the finest connoisseurs in South East Asian Art.  Lim said, “As I venture into oil painting with famous artist Phoon Poh Wai’s guidance, my discovery of what this medium can bring excites me and it liberated me from my traditional notions of what art should be.”