In the Windrift denominated works, Dato’ Tajuddin Ismail turns from the juxtaposition of surface colours to purposeful black lines like a Motherwell, creating air-streams of Lyrical Abstraction in micro-cellular forms, even cosmic forms. Inspired obviously by Nature, it presents emotive expressive interpretations of landscapes, nebulous and unspecific but innate with musical interludes. After graduating from the Mara Institute of Technology in 1973, Dato’ Tajuddin Ismail studied at the Art Centre College of Design, Los Angeles (Graphic Design, 1974), Pratt Institute, New York (post-graduate Interior Architecture, 1981; apprenticed to Massimo Vignelli). A Fulbright research fellow (1987), he won the Minor Awards in the National Drawing Competition (1977), the National Graphic Art competition (1978), the Salon Malaysia (1979), and the National Design Council (1994). He retired as Associate Professor of Fine Art and Interior Architecture at Universiti ITM.