Chang Fee Ming's intricate paintings in the medium of watercolour are made up of personal observations of the local people and traditions from his travels across Asia. Painted in translucent shades of watercolour, Fee Ming records the livelihood of the fishermen of Narathiwat, located in the southern province of Thailand that borders Malaysia. His personal impressions of place and people were finely preserved onto sheets of postcards, associated with the idea of travel. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s – Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.