Raja Azhar Idris returned to Malaysia for good in 1992, after spending 14 years in Melbourne, Australia, as an artist-gallerist. It was back to the vagaries of the tropical weather of stifling afternoon heat and lashing thunderstorms and drizzles. It was one such scene where he saw everything in liquefied mode from the glass panel/window that drove him to paint such images, which also double as a metaphor of today’s realityand life: impermanent, inconstant and ever changing. In Australia, Raja Azhar set up his gallery under his own name, and also took up art-conservation. He graduated with a degree in Fine Arts at the Victoria College of the Arts in Melbourne in 1981. It was at a time that Raja Azhar was on a roll, winning the St Kilda art competition in 1980-81, the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Prize in 1981, the Gippsland Art Prize (1982), the Royal Club of St Kilda Prize (1983), the Greyhound Art Prize (1979) and the Victoria Art Society’s Artist of the Year Award. On his return, he set up Art Case Galleries.