Chang Fee Ming’s delicate watercolour paintings draw inspiration from his encounters with people and traditions observed during his travels across Asia. In these pieces, he captures a lively scene of village life, portraying people in activities such as catching a fish, and resting on the ground, contemplating on various matters. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia’s best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s – Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.