Fadilah Karim is a widely celebrated young artist noted for her enigmatic, inscrutable figures in a melancholic and mysterious setting. Her mastery of the figures was helped by a two-month mentorship under ‘Silat Master’ Amron Omar. The blogger, Art KL-itique, writing on ‘Fadilah Karim, VII@Segaris’ (gallery) in March 2013: “The figures in Fadilah Karim’s works are stuck in a perpetual state of anguish, the characters readily questioning their personal values.” In her 2016 solo called ‘Secret Lies’, Liz Anne Bautista wrote: “…this painter’s singularity lies in her abilitiy to plait her personal stories into her work, each creation echoing a raw intensity shaped by her own opinions, experiences, interests, philosophies, vulnerabilities, and ideas of beauty, whether it is a portrait of herself or a good friend, an image of either one of her four cats or a diptych depicting an ageing patriarch.”