Ingatan Marang (2002) is akin to Malam Marang (2001) more panorama from the close-up focus from the same littoral fishing village Marang coast between Kuala Terengganu and Kuantan, and at nightfall still. Marang is also the gateway to Pulau Kapas. It is imbued with the same saucer-eyed wonder that typified Datuk Syed Ahmad’s early pieces like Sungai Batu Pahat (1957) and Sawah Padi Malam (1960) and even St Ives Harbour (1951), but with much greater sensitivity, skills and artistic perspicacity in the intervening years. One is awash with a sense of serenity and peace, within and without, while it is evocative of a divine presence in Nature, like the spiritual aura of his Heaven And Earth series with memories of his Kunang-Kunang. Artist (painter, sculptor, logo designer), academician, administrator, critic-writer, curator, stage and costume designer, cartoonist. That’s Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal, the only fine-art National Laureate. He was director of the National Art Gallery (NAG, 1981-1991), the Asian Cultural Centre (Universiti Malaya, KL, 1979-1983), and principal of the Specialist Teachers Training Institute, from 1964 (1961-72). The NAG honoured him with a Retrospective in 1975, and another Retrospective titled Syed Ahmad Jamal: Pelukis (2009), besides Syed Ahmad Jamal: Historical Overview 1954-1994 (Nanyang Gallery of Art, KL, 1994-1995). His awards include the Datukship (1996), country awards from India (1962), the United States (1963-1964), France (1970), and Australia (1984). Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal had his formal art education in Britain and the United States culminating with a Masters degree in Art History from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu (1973-1974). He authored two major books, Rupa Dan Jiwa (1992) and the autobiographical Kunang-Kunang (1999).