The rawness of The Green Room by Rafiee Ghani demonstrates a unique quality in his early interior composition. The application of paint here is in blocks – demarcated by clear lines in varying forms to suggest a room with a window, a table, a chair, vases of flowers and a plant. His colour palette choice of green, red, blue and yellow sets a solemn mood. Rafiee Ghani won the Minor Award in the coveted Young Contemporary Artists exhibition and the Minor Award in the 1991 Salon Malaysia. He was placed second in the Malaysian Art Open competition in 1994, and was among the five Juror’s Choice winners in the Malaysian-level Philip Morris Asean Art Awards. He studied at the De Vrije Academie Voor Bildeendie Kunst at the Hague, the Netherlands, but did not finish. He obtained his Diploma at the Mara Institute of Technology (ITM, 1981-1985) and a Master from the Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester Polytechnic) in Britain from 1986 to 1987. After teaching at ITM for a few years, he taught in Mahe, Seychelles from 1991 to 1993. His work, The Beginning Of The Red Sea (2016), sold for a personal record of HK$325,000 in Sotheby’s Hong Kong April 2017 sale. He presented a body of work alongside abstract painter Suzlee Ibrahim at Nou Gallery, Taipei in Taiwan from November 16 to December 16, 2018.