The top half of the painting seems awash with a certain tutti-fruity tanginess with even a rind of citrus yellow, the whorl opening like edible petals. The top half of organic and natural shapes like trees, contrasts with the bottom half with a sparse array of geometric decals of little triangles in a cooler veneer. Exuding with a sense of optical taste of the slightly sourish note, it begs the question: Do colours, here with sensory therapy, exude smell and taste? Known as an extreme adventure artist having traversed to the most inhospitable of places, Rafiee Ghani is drawn to such exotic places and cultures that time forgot, for the essence. Now, in 2003, with two decades of ‘cooking’ colours from the Fauvist to more pastel hues but still vibrant, Rafiee Ghani seems bent on letting the colours reverberate, or ooze gently.   In 1984 and 1985, Rafiee Abdul Ghani set his name in lights when he consecutively won the Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artists competition, and he showed it was no fluke when he again snared the Minor Award in the ‘adult’ Salon Malaysia (1991). In 1994, he won 2nd Prize in the one-off private Malaysian Art Open competition and a Juror’s Choice winner in the Malaysian tier of the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards. He did his MA (Fine Prints) at the Manchester Polytechnic, England, in 1987. He first studied at the De Vrije Academie Voor Bildeende Kunst, The Hague (1980) but did not complete, before returning to Malaysia to do his Diploma (majoring in Printmaking) at the Mara Institute of Technology (1985). He had also teaching stints, at ITM from 1986-1988 and 1989-1990, and then in Mahe in the Seychelles, in 1991-1993. In January 2022, he held a solo exhibition, Overland, jointly organised by Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers, at Galeri Prima, Kuala Lumpur.