The ginger plant, as are many others in tropical Asian botany, has always fascinated Chang Fee Ming, for the colours, shape, intricacies and efficacy of its purported medicinal qualities. Painting flowers and plants is also a distraction from his other alfresco expressions of rural life and people, the Man-Nature symbiosis in life sustenance and cultural tradition. This ginger plant work shown at the Exotic Tropicals exhibition at Galeri Citra, Kuala Lumpur, way back in 1994, is not only a study of spices and folk medicine but also a way of depicting the bloom, a solitary efflorescence, amidst a vegetation of green, using the watercolour medium. Chang Fee Ming is one of the most accomplished artists dedicated to watercolours, pushing the parameters of expression and techniques. His string of accolades include Sime Darby Art Asia Award (Gold / Overall Asean Prize, 1985), Malaysian Watercolour Society Award (1984 and 1985), PNB Malaysian Art Competition (1st Prize, 1985); and the Malaysian Young Contemporaries Award (Minor, 1986 and 1987). He also received Awards of Distinction from the Rockport Publishers USA (1997) and Dom Perignon Malaysia (1999). He was the co-winner (Malaysia) of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Competition in 1999.