On offer here is a set of 2 works by the artist. The Ancient Earth I is from her first Touch The Earth series. The usage of the colour in this series is more ethereal. While the other piece from the Night Dance series uses interactions of colours, combining elegant strokes applied in multiple directions. Dato' Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir graduated from the pioneering batch of fine art students from the Mara Institute of Technology (now a university) in 1971. She studied for her BFA at the Reading University, England, in 1973-1976, and her MFA at the Pratt Institute, New York, in 1976-1978, under the JDR III Fund fellowship. She won the Minor Award in the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972 and the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1981. In 1979, she won the coveted Major Award in the Salon Malaysia 1979. She also won 3rd Prize in the 2003 Biennial of Contemporary Painting of the Islamic World, Teheran. For her tremendous contributions, she was conferred a Dato'ship by the Sultan of Kedah in 2006.