What About Me? illustrates a toddler resting on a baby hammock with her eyes gazing directly at the viewer. The “do-it-yourself” baby hammock is common in rural areas and is usually supported by batik cloth.
 

The artist employs batik motif in most of his Terengganu series to celebrate the simple way of living. Intense hues of blue, red and brown on the batik floral and butterfly motif are applied in harmony with the multicoloured fishing boats moored by the beach in the background.
 

Chang Fee Ming seeks solace by painting his surroundings in the East coast and during his travels around the Southeast Asia region, producing captivating scenes of fishermen at the beach in his hometown Terengganu; detailed illustrations of vibrant tangerine fabric worn by monks in Myanmar; and bountiful offerings in Bali.
 

Chang Fee Ming is an accomplished watercolourist known for his unique renditions and interpretations of peoples, traditional societies and their cultures and the often exotic, remote places he visited in Indonesia, Nepal, Africa, the Indo-Chinese communities along the Mekong right up to its source in Tibet. Since his first foray to Bali in 1985, he has etched his place in Indonesian art history, especially in Bali. His array of awards include the Malaysian Watercolour Society award (1984 and 1985), the Sime Darby Art Asia gold award (1985) and the PNB Malaysian art award (1985). He also won the Minor Awards in the Young Contemporary Artists competition in 1986 and 1987. He won distinction awards in the Rockport Publishers USA in 1997 and the Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award (Malaysia) in 1999. He was a co-winner (Malaysia) of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition in 1999. In 2009, he was selected for the Singapore Tyler Print Institute project in 2009 which resulted in his solo exhibition Imprinted Thoughts.
 

REFERENCE

The World of Chang Fee Ming , Essay: Ooi Kok Chuen, Edited by Garrett Kam, 1995.

The Visible Trail of Chang Fee Ming , Christine Rohani Longuet, 2000.

Chang Fee Ming: From South China Sea… To Mount Agung , Pipal Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Komaneka Fine Art Gallery, Bali, Indonesia, 2012.