If you see a proliferation of goats in Suhaidi Razi’s oeuvre, it’s probably not because it’s his favourite animal subject, but that they happen to be there – in his goat farm, some 3 acres of it, in Kelantan, which also happens to be his home studio and his mother’s homestead. Like Raduan Man, with a farmstead studio. He also rears kampung chicken and his farm also has horses. And the term, blue goat, may refer to the mountain ram in the Himalayas called bharal or naur native to India, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet. Whether Suhaidi’s goat is actually blue (a Smurf goat?), it doesn’t seem so from the work, though the background is positively blue. But blue or otherwise, a doughnut is not something anyone would want to tempt a goat with, that’s why the nonchalant look, and it could well have snarled: “Sheesh!” (Goat In Blue is illustrated in the catalogue of Suhaidi Razi’s exhibition, Imagine The Imagination, 2013) Suhaidi graduated with a BFA in 1999 and MFA in 2005 at the Universiti ITM in Shah Alam. He has won several prizes but the major one is the Nokia Art Award in 2002. Others include the Grand Prize in Life-drawing (Pesta Anggerik, Galeri Shah Alam, 2004), Historical Painting Johor (2008), Nature Terengganu (2008), Historical Terengganu (2009), Traditional Malay House design (Malacca, 2006). He also won the Major Award in the Pahang painting competition (2003), Johor Historical Building (2004) and numerous Minor Awards. His first solos, Rainforest and A Sanctuary, were held at the Batang Ai Longhouse resort and KL Hilton respectively in 1997. Then came ‘Passage’ at NN Gallery in 2011, Dream Pipes at Galeri Chandan, Kuala Lumpur in 2012, Imagine the Imagination at White Box Publika, Kuala Lumpur, in 2013, and Paradox organised by Curate Henry Butcher at Galeri Prima in March-April 2017. In the Nov 6, 2016 Henry Butcher auction, a horse sculpture by him sold for RM9,520.