Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah stands among Malaysia’s most accomplished female artists. This work exemplifies her refined approach to abstraction, where carefully constructed planes overlap with a sense of harmony. The distinct, flowing forms interweave to define space, leading toward the inner self. Dato' Sharifah Fatimah had her later art tutelage on both sides of the Atlantic, first at Reading University in England (1973-1976) and then for her MFA at Pratt Institute in New York (1976-1978). She was from the pioneering batch of fine art students graduating from the Mara Institute of Technology (now a university), in 1971. Her major triumph was the Major Award in the 1979 Salon Malaysia, apart from the Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1981 and the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972. On the international stage, she won 3rd Prize in the Islamic World Painting Biennial in Teheran, Iran, in 2003. For her achievements and contributions to art, she was conferred a Dato'ship by the Sultan of Kedah in 2006.