Lee Long Looi is known for his simplified portraits of damsels doing domestic chores or resting or involved in crafts in a rural setting. The figures, often clad in head scarves or headdresses, are usually rendered in half-body. In the quartet of women featured in this work, the main one with hair tied neatly at the back is marked with red lipstick. Lee Long Looi graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, Singapore, in 1964. He studied at the Art Student League and the Pratt Institute, both in New York, in 1970. That year, he held his first solo at the Jarvis Art Gallery in New York. He won a batik prize in the United States for three consecutive years. He was given two Retrospectives by The Art Gallery Penang, first in 1997 and the other in 2010.