Krijono grew up with art around him. His father was a collector and gallerist of Harris Art Gallery, while his mother owned a batik factory. He is known for his figures, especially Balinese women, but reserves abstract for places and landscapes. Using a bold format of what looks like an umbrella top, he cuts off half the composition horizontally marking a festival processing on the arc. Krijono studied at the Indonesia College of Fine Arts, Yogyakarta, and had his first solo, of batik, in 1982. He liked to use pure colours in his works. As he intoned: “I am a painter, not a paint mixer.”