Graceful Manners I features a kaleidoscope of colours - one of Khalil Ibrahim’s signature techniques used in his Fishermen series – to illustrate a group of figures in various poses. An explosion of colour play with the overlapping and delineations of tonal patches, this graceful piece highlights rhythm and motions of the abstract figures. Khalil Ibrahim graduated with a National Diploma of Design in Fine Arts at the prestigious St. Martin’s School of Art and Design in London in 1964 (post-graduate in 1965). He turned into a full-time artist in 1966. Khalil was a co-founder of the Malaysian Watercolour Society and had his first double solo of London works and Malaysian batiks at Samat Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur in 1970. That year, he also had a solo exhibition in Indonesia, the first Malaysian to have done so. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Switzerland. His works are in the collection of the National Museum in Singapore, Fukuoka Museum of Art in Japan, New South Wales Museum of Art in Sydney and the Royal National Art Gallery of Jordan. In August 2015, he held a retrospective exhibition titled Khalil Ibrahim: The Art Journey in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.