Puan Sri Norma Abbas had a mini-retrospective at the Bank Negara Malaysia Museum And Art Gallery in June 2016. Her colours are unusually bright with a dark backdrop. A thin white line connects all the elements in the picture with a certain endearment, while her composition veers towards a semi-abstraction. One could feel the affection, close relations between the woman and the cat. Puan Sri Norma Abbas has been a fulltime artist since 1987, and boasts of an art education background that informs her kind of work – diaristic, closed-space intimacy, enigmatic, honest, playful and humorous. She was educated in public schools in Barnes and Kensington in London. Back home, she continued her secondary education at the Convent of Holy Jesus Bukit Nanas, Kuala Lumpur. She studied for a Pre-Diploma Foundation Studies at the Mara Institute of Technology (1968-1969) and graduated with a BA in Printed and Woven Textiles at the Manchester Polytechnic of Art, England (1972-1975) and MA in Autographics Printmaking at the Chelsea School of Art, London (1981-1982). She worked as head of department in a local printing company from 1984-1987.