This piece depicts the St. Paul's Church, a historic church building in Malacca that was originally built in 1521, making it the oldest church building in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Located at the summit of St. Paul's Hill, it is today part of the Malacca Museum Complex comprising of the A Famosa ruins, the Stadthuys and other historical buildings. Fung Yow Chork captured the ruined walls of the church with his trademark Impressionist style, swiftly applying paint to depict light and contrast. Fung Yow Chork was only 13 years old when he picked up the finer points in art from an artist in China who had studied Impressionism in Japan. In 1933, his family migrated to Singapore and there, he forged a friendship with Professor Zhong Bai-mu (Chong Pai Mu), a lecturer of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. After moving to Kuala Lumpur in 1934, he worked as a salesman, shop assistant and typesetter with a Chinese newspaper, painting only on Sundays and during holidays and more so after he retired in 1977. He held his first solo exhibition at Chin Woo Art Gallery in 1981. On landscape, he told Halinah Todd in an interview published in The New Straits Times in 1981: “The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.”