Dreams lie deep within the heart, nurturing aspirations that guide one's journey. Across the canvas, luxuriant drips of colours unfold like an endless pattern of fragrant flowers in full bloom. As the writer Ooi Kok Chuen intoned, "Ismail transports us into an enchanting realm of suffusive colour movements with metaphors synthesised from beauteous elements of nature." Ismail Latiff graduated with a Diploma in Art and Design from Mara Institute of Technology, Selangor in 1979 and has exhibited internationally since 1977. His accolades include the Frank Sullivan Award, Salon Malaysia, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (1979), Young Illustrator of Asia, Tokyo, Japan (1981), and First Prize, Biennial of Visual Arts, Carnagie Museum, Victoria, Seychelles (1992). In 1984, he held his first solo art exhibition in Kuala Lumpur followed by 5 others such as Nine Years with Art Salon (1993), Magic In The Sky (2005) and Come Fly With Me (2008). He participated in a group exhibition titled The Prayer organised by NN Gallery in 2012 and his work was featured at the Affordable Art Fair, Singapore in 2014. Ismail's collectors include individuals, corporations, galleries, national and international museums.