Loh Ek Sem is known for his kampung denizens with tiny heads and disproportionately huge body frames and elongated limbs with everything crooked like the Crooked House nursery rhyme. He is especially active in solos during the 1990s, at Art Salon Kuala Lumpur in 1994 and 1996. There are two strands to his oeuvre, namely one in acrylic on canvas and the other more uniqulely, on carved handmade cast-paper. This 1996 work is obviously from his Kampung Idyll exhibition in 1997. The work is dominated by two woman, one framed by the window casement fascinated by two birds on a fish trap put out to dry, and the other outside tending to a pot of plant, watching over a kid playing with a cat. In the Henry Butcher Nov 6 auction, a work, Back From the Sea (1996) by Sem, as he is more popularly known as, scored RM10,976. Sem seems to have diversified. He holds the Guinness World Record for the Largest Pin Art incorporating 3.7 million map pins with 22 different colours. The work measures 9.35m x 6.7m. He has also done larger works, like one titled Peranakan Tea Ceremony, measuring 880cm x 675cm! Sem graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art at the now-defunct Kuala Lumpur College of Art. His first solo was at Galeri Maybank in 1994. From 1995 to 2000, he was with the Singapore-based Opera Gallery, and later his works are shown in the Artique Fine Art in Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur.