It may look like a cartography of linked geometry and the odd organic shapes simulating an imaginary landscape. More a sensorial drifting of objects and thoughts, sentimental and poetic. Moving, hovering, inexorably… you can’t see it, only feel it as it caresses your skin in a sense-surround idyll, in tones subdued. A work from Dato' Tajuddin Ismail’s Unfold exhibition at Art Salon, Kuala Lumpur, in 1995, the impetus is invariably Nature, in all its silent vigil. Tajuddin is much inspired by the Spanish Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida and American Bayside painter Richard Diebinkorn, but devises his own matrix of iconography. Dato' Tajuddin Ismail moves inexorably between Fine Art, Graphic Design, Interior Architecture to produce works in a Lyrically Abstract style. He won the Minor Awards in the 1979 Salon Malaysia, the 1977 National Drawing Competition, the 1978 National Graphic Art Competition, and the Malaysian Design Council (1994). He’s trained in Graphic Design at the Art Centre College of Design in Los Angeles, MSc in Interior Architecture at the Pratt Institute, New York (1981), where he apprenticed under Massimo Vignelli, and the Mara Institute of Technology (1973). He was also a Fulbright research fellow (1986). He taught at the Universiti ITM, retiring as Associate Professor in 2002, after serving for 28 years. His overseas exhibitions include Madrid, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Yogyakarta, Japan, Germany and the Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco in 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2000.