All the seemingly disparate shapes or forms are circumscribed by a circle, a perfect symbol of balance and harmony. Dato' Tajuddin Ismail started exploring round canvases in the early 2000s. This harmonious orchestration of forms, colour and space evokes a sense of contemplative calm. One gets a sense of musicality in this round work apart from the tranquility and beauty, and recalls the strains of the 1934 ballad, Blue Moon. Dato' Tajuddin’s abstract repertoire plays on nebulous coloured shapes in rhythmic interaction to create an experience and a revelation. As Piet Mondrian intoned: “Abstract art is not opposed to Nature… it is one with true human nature.” Dato' Tajuddin Ismail’s works reveal his exposures to, and imbibement of, paintings and sculptures of organic and geometric forms, Graphic Design (Art Centre College of Design in Los Angeles) and Interior Architecture (Pratt Institute in New York) after initial studies at the Mara Institute of Technology, which he later taught there. He was also apprenticed to Massimo Vignelli. He has won numerous awards including the Minor Award in the National Drawing Competition (1977), the National Graphic Art competition (1978), Salon Malaysia (1979) and the National Design Council (1994).