Between 1995 and 1997 Latiff observed Nature from a different perspective, striving to portray notions of forests that symbolise growth and revival processes. Capturing the splendour of Nature and exuding a meditative quality, the series is comprised of approximately 90 paintings and an equal amount of drawings. Another driving force in Latiff’s shift in style was his exploration of new technical features consisting of varying brushstrokes and glazing methods, weaving together a sense of vigour. Producing some of his most forceful work during this period, Latiff sought to express states of transformative processes in nature and created works in an expressive and artistic style. Drawing is an important developmental process in Latiff’s practice, viewed as ‘crystallising first thoughts in which an idea is set down by graphic means and which stands as a unity’. One of Southeast Asia’s leading modernists, Abdul Latiff Mohidin is a poet, painter, printmaker and sculptor. He received his education at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Berlin, Germany, studied printmaking at Atelier La Courriere in Paris, France and Pratt Graphic Centre in New York, USA. He received honours and awards such as the Malaysia’s National Literary Prize and the Southeast Asian’s Writer’s Award in 1984. Latiff was gifted in art from a young age, and was hailed as a ‘boy wonder’ by the local press when he held his first solo at the Kota Raja Malay School in 1951 at the age of ten. His latest exhibition Pago Pago: Latiff Mohidin (1960-1969) was held at the internationally renowned Centre Pompidou in Paris last year, jointly organised by Centre Pompidou and National Gallery Singapore. The Pago-Pago body of works were also on display at Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur later of the year.