Loh Ek Sem is known for his papercast handmade paintings and his mannered oversized or downsized figures with long necks and elongated limbs. This one on a fisherman’s return and showing his small haul to his wife, is on acrylic on canvas. A graduate of the Lumpur College of Art (Fine Art diploma), Ek Sem holds the Guinness World of Record for the Largest Pin Art, which is made up of 3.7 million map pins with 22 different colours, with the work measuring 9.35m x 6.7m. He has also a work, on the Peranakan Tea Ceremony, which measures 880cm x 675cm. After his first solo at Galeri Maybank, Kuala Lumpur, in 1994, Ek Sem followed it up with another at Art Salon called Kampung Idyll in 1997. He was with the Singapore-based Opera Gallery in 1995-2000. Later exhibitions were at the Artique Fine Art in Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur.