Redza Piyadasa meticulously rendered the sitter's facial expressions and distinct features, with attractive large eyes. Created with pencil on paper, the portrait showcases the artist's remarkable ability to capture the nuances of the face and the subtle contours of the human form. The refined portrait depicts the subject immersed in thought. Art historian-artist Redza Piyadasa was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur in 2001. He won the Major Prize in the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1974, and was joint winner of the Minor Award with Lee Kian Seng in the 1979 Salon Malaysia. On the international front, he won the Prince Claus Award in 1998 for his contributions. He was also given the Australian Cultural Award (1987) and the Japan Foundation Travel Award (1992). He was also a co-founder of the Five Arts Centre in 1983. In 1991, he was artist-in-residence at the Canberra Institute of the Arts. Academic-wise, he received his MFA from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu in 1977 after studying at Hornsey (1967) and Brinsford Lodge (1959) in Britain.