A self-taught artist, Maamor Jantan produces vibrant watercolour paintings with captivating compositions. His unconventional approach distinguishes his style from other painters. Although he has been living in the city since the 1980s, he often portrays the East Coast scenes of paddy fields, fishing villages, boats, nets and the sandy beaches in his paintings. Among his favoured subject matters are the Kampung, Bali and Jogja series as well as Paradise series – the three themes in one – besides his profound Dragonfly series. His portrayal of the ‘cakcibor’ with their delicate, transparent wings showed his intimate connection with Nature. “I wanted people to realize how fragile our life really is. At the same time I did not want them to destroy the environment and how urgent it is to protect our ecosystem,” the artist revealed. Maamor Jantan held first solo exhibition at University Malaya in April 2014 consisting of 150 paintings from the day he first started painting till the present. He worked as an apprentice machinist in Petaling Jaya in the early 1980s, later taking on a role as an assistant curator with an art gallery in Kuala Lumpur. In 1984, he met Khalil Ibrahim who then became his mentor.