Templer Park is a favourite landscape subject for Peter Liew in his early days. Just 30 minutes’ drive out of the Kuala Lumpur city centre, park is surrounded by jungle and the Templer’s Golf Course. Bukit Takun, a limestone outcrop sitting on a granite base (Pussey Key) with a cliff standing 300m tall, is used for abseiling and rock-climbing, while the area is a spot for jungle trekking and bird-watching. Nearby are the Kanching Waterfalls and the Rainforest Retreat sanctuary. Under azure-blue skies, the light exudes crisp reflection on the water’s edge with just the right shadows in areas of the trees and grass ledge. Peter Liew has been called the ‘Poet of the Panorama’ for his large natural landscapes of Asia, Europe, the United States and Oceania although he has moved away from a green palette to urbanscapes, quaysides and more recently, ‘landscape’ portraits. He taught at the Malaysian Institute of Art from 1981-1994, after receiving his Diploma of Fine Art there in 1979 (He was awarded Best Student in 1978). He has several solos since his first at Art House Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 1981, including in the International Art Expo Malaysia. Most notable is his solo at Galeri Seni Maybank, Kuala Lumpur in 1997.