Fung Yow Chork is a self-taught artist noted for his plein-air paintings of fishing villages, river scenes and rural life that marked important impressions of the early days of the Klang Valley and Malacca. It was Zhong Baimu whom he met in Singapore who advised him to switch to oils. This Malacca River work, with busy details of the anchored covered sampan and the towering buildings in the backdrop, is a later work from his earlier dalliance in recording the changing face on the Malacca River. Dubbed the Cezanne of the Melati Flats, Fung has not been painting for many years due to old-age ailments.