Small is Big in this set of Dato Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir’s Mindscape. It seems to take on a new significance in pairs, with a noticeably sharper edge geometrics or at least with sharper points. The judicious overlap of colours is a Sharifah forte, for therein the emotional moods get more ambiguous through the mist of shifting colours. Not that it works in a pair, though, as the two works are independent entities, because of the different colour schemes and shapes in composition in each work. But the more staccato cuts of what is perceived as a diagonal slant upwards to the right but with a gradual gradient are carried by the more dominant yellow hues and strips throughout. This year, 2017, is Dato Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir’s 50th anniversary as an artist, having studied at Mara Institute of Technology for her Fine Art Diploma in 1967-1971. She obtained her BFA at the Reading University, England, in 1973-1976, and her MFA at the Pratt Institute, New York, in 1976-1978, under the JDR III Fund fellowship. She clinched the Major Award in the Art Salon Malaysia in 1979, and the Minor Award in the 1981 Young Contemporary Artist (BMS) competition and the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972. She has had solos all over the world since her first at the Alpha Gallery in Singapore in 1972, and is featured in numerous major Malaysian exhibitions overseas.