Perhaps more so than his commissioned portraits of the rich and famous, Hoessein Enas found great relish in painting portraits of ordinary people, mainly Malay women, with rustic charm, innocence and sometimes portrayed in their work-clothes. Here, the Kedah beauty is pictured with a farm head-dress. Pastels, one of Enas’ favourite mediums, allowed him for the quick, unerring strokes and the smoothness of forms consistent with his métier.