It is one of those works that Tew Nai Tong played with the dexterity of the wet-on-wet technique, with the controlled adumbrations of tones on beach, water and mountain. As co-founder of the Malaysian Watercolour Society and then the Contemporary Malaysian Watercolorist Association, which was a breakaway, Nai Tong was very skillful in the fluid medium. After graduating from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore in 1958, Nai Tong furthered his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, returning in 1968. He started teaching at the Malaysian Institute of Art in 1969-80, the Central Academy of Art in 1982-85, and then the Saito Academy of Art in 1986-88 before deciding to become a fulltime artist in 1992. His first solo was at the British Council in 1964 and he was being accorded a mini-retrospective by the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 2007. Nai Tong won 2nd Prize in the Standard Chartered Bank Mural Design Competition (1964), the Shell Watercolour Award (1981), Best Award in Esso (1980), the Dunlop Watercolour Award (1983), Grand Prize Asia Art Award (Malaysia) in Seoul in 2009.