Fendy Zakri’s Cover Blue of some imaginary landscape is decidedly chilly despite the reddish line like sunrise in a broken horizon strip. Blue introspection is enhanced by dark accentuations. Streaks, drips and flicks and scraped dried areas intersperse a broad greyish horizontal areas of irregular shapes.
Self-taught Fendy Zakri is not art-college-trained. He graduated with a Diploma in Civil Engineering at the Engku Omar Polytechnic in Ipoh, in 2003. He believes that “the thought behind an artwork is more important than the skills in creating it.” His first solo exhibition, Seeing The Unseen, was held at Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, in May 2014. He uses a photo-editing software on a smart phone, PicsArt, to reveal the hidden. Fendy is a finalist in the Malaysia Emerging Artists Award in 2011, and won an Incentives Award in the Mekar Citra Gallery in Shah Alam in 2013.