The captivating work resembles fragments of beautiful colours united to form a cohesive composition. The work showcases her experimentation with acrylic and modelling paste in the 1990s. Under the artist’s clear vision, her encounters and deep experience of nature is translated into poetic and evocative compositions.
Dato' Sharifah Fatimah was from the pioneering batch of fine art students from the Mara Institute of Technology (now Universiti Teknologi Mara) in 1967 and graduated with a diploma in 1971. She enrolled in a course in fine arts at Reading University in England in 1973 and graduated with first class honours. She completed her postgraduate studies at the Pratt Institute in New York in 1976 with a John D Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship. She took a museum management course at City University of London in 1987 while she was a curator-coordinator at the National Art Gallery Malaysia from 1982 to 1990. During her stint at the institution, she curated Ibrahim Hussein's exhibition, A Retrospective.