Puan Sri Norma Abbas’ works may look simple and the subjects flighty but they are really a sophisticated package with great psychological insights and almost always infused with printmaking techniques like monoprint and collage. Her works are based on relationships especially of those whom she encounters — family, relatives, close friends, feline companions and always in an intimate atmosphere of chatter often in the living room or perhaps in the garden. Puan Sri Norma Abbas has been a full time artist since 1987, and boasts of an art education background that informs her kind of work – diaristic, closed-space intimacy, enigmatic, honest, playful and humorous. She was educated in public schools in Barnes and Kensington in London. Back home, she continued her secondary education at the Convent of Holy Jesus Bukit Nanas, Kuala Lumpur. She studied for a Pre-Diploma Foundation Studies at the Mara Institute of Technology (1968-1969) and graduated with a BA in Printed and Woven Textiles at the Manchester Polytechnic of Art, England (1972-1975) and MA in Autographics Printmaking at the Chelsea School of Art, London (1981-1982). She worked as head of department in a local printing company from 1984-1987.