The Malacca Series represents one of the early successes of Peter Liew in his paintings of landscapes and the panorama. There is also the rawness of his strokes where he cut and sculpted the paintings with his palette knife, and his palette of sombre colours that marked his impecunious state when starting and painting fulltime again in October 1994. The Malacca Series is in his major exhibition in Journey Into Landscape, complete with a catalogue, at Galeri Maybank in 1997. He plays on the chiaroscuro with a little spot of colour of houses by the river. A traveller artist, Peter Liew has travelled all over for his intrinsic impressions of the landscapes: the United States, New Zealand, China, Vietnam, Europe, Macedonia, Turkey, Russia… Peter Liew was educated at the Malaysian Institute of Art (MIA, 1976-1979, Best Student 1978), where he taught from 1981 to 1994. His other works revolve around old architecture, quaysides and recently, landscape portraits. He has several solos since his first at Art House Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 1981, including in Art Expo Malaysia and a solo in Skopje, Macedonia, in 2002, after invited to the art colony in Debrca, Belchrista and Macedonia in 2000. His recent solos were held at National Art Gallery Malaysia & Wisma Kebudayaan Soka Gakkai Malaysia.