Lee Joo For was a multitalented and versatile artist and playwright. The artwork draws upon the influence of Symbolism, employing lyrical lines and symbols to portray an emotive, dreamlike state. In this work, the artist brings together architectural elements, human figures, and his signature motif of the horse. John Lee Joo For is extraordinarily gifted in paint, printmaking and letters especially in playwrighting with a producer's choreography to boot. In art, his training pedigree was in England's Brighton, then Camberwell and the prestigious Royal College of Art. As a playwright (he had also been director, producer and stage actor), he pencilled the first few chapters of Malaysian drama in English. He was an academician in art, media studies and theatre, and was also a novelist. In Australia, where he migrated to in 1973, he had spectacular success in his Christian musical, Call Of Guadalupe, and he fought off the pain of his thyroid cancer to see the fruition of his last play, Mary Magdalene: Wanton Saint (2017). His Son Of Zen made it to Broadway. He co-founded the Thursday Art Group and the Penang Teachers Art Circle, and in London, the Malayan Art Circle. In 2008, the Penang State Art Gallery honoured him with a Retrospective, and he had an earlier Retrospective at The Art Gallery Penang in 1995.