Waiting For The Lover’ is a recurring theme in Syed Thajudeen’s Lovers repertoire. To him, the love between two humans of the opposite sex, is the most enthralling and eternal. The picture is dominated by a solitary woman in a bright off-shoulder dress in the natural open at night. Something sensual is suggested in the erotic bud-like blooms in the bottom green rectangle and the three-fig clover, with the pun on lover perhaps. A bird stands guard on the left while the woman raises her right hand, apparently guiding her unseen lover to where she is, in what looks like a secret rendezvous. Born in Alagam Kulamvillage near Madurai, South India, Syed Thajudeen joined her Malaysian-born parents in Penang when he was 11 and stayed on until his lower secondary education. He returned to Madras to study at the Government College of Arts and Crafts (1967-1974), with a Diploma in Painting 1973 and a Post-Diploma in painting in 1974. He held his first solo at the Penang State Art Gallery (PSAG) in 1975 followed by another at the Samat Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. In 2015, the PSAG honoured Syed Thajudeen with a retrospective. His other notable solos include Seroja (2002), Love and its Many Splendoured Things (2004), Cinta Tercipta, There Is Love (2006, 2007), Women in Kebaya (2007)., Paintings On Love (2010). He was selected for the Bangladesh Biennale in 1983; the Contemporary Paintings of Malaysia in Pasadena, the United States, in 1988; and the Olympic Games art show in London in 2012.