Rain can be a blessing and a bane. It is succour during drought, but an overwhelming downpour can lead to floods and landslide and erosion. Be it a layman, a fisherman or a farmer, he is affected one way or another. To an artist, the changing weather patterns as ominously heralded in the sky give an opportunity to capture the colours, mood and atmosphere. Yes, a storm can be beautiful: destruction begets hope of renewal, like a metaphor of life. Tropical landscapes are one of the fascination of veteran academician-artist-potter Yeoh Jin Leng. Yeoh Jin Leng had his art tutelage at the Chelsea School of Art (1957-1961) besides the Malayan Teachers College (Kirby, Liverpool, 1952) and the London Ministry of Education (London University, 1963). On his return, he taught at the Specialists Teachers Training Institute from 1963-1968, and was its head of department from 1969-1983, before joining the Malaysian Institute of Art as dean of studies from 1984-1994. He was given a retrospective, Jin Leng: Art And Thoughts 1952-1995, by the National Art Gallery Malaysia in 1996, and a mini post-retrospective called Ten Years On at the NN Gallery, KL, in 2007, as well as Life-Drawings From Chelsea Days (1958-1962) at NN Gallery in 2008. He was one of the seven major artists featured in the landmark GRUP exhibition in 1967. He won the 1990 Australian Culture Award and the Perak State Award in 1998. His early promise was in 1969 when he won the Special Prize (Painting) in the Salon Malaysia and the Tokyo Biennale Prize for Painting, and in the 1992 Salon Malaysia, he won the Minor Award for Sculpture. He was also a guest Artist to West Germany (1970), USA (1970), France (1990), again in the USA in 1985, as a guest art educationist.