This painting appears like a departure from Raduan Man’s more robust and masculine-orientated themes. The title, Two Girls and their Cat, at once sets a domestic interior setting and narrows the scope for interpretations although meanings can be slippery. The two girls are shown in ghostly white with faint outlines surrounded by a backcloth of red-and-orange palette. Raduan Man, the self-proclaimed farmer, achieved a double Masters – first, the University of Wolverhampton (Painting), United Kingdom, in 2003, and then the Camberwell School of Art, UK (Printmaking), UK, in 2006. He obtained his BFA at the Universiti ITM in 2000. In his works, he combines painting and woodcut printmaking techniques. He won the Juror’s Award in the Tanjung Heritage competition in 2002. His first of seven solos, all at different venues, was Fresh Markings, at NN Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. Others were at Artspace Gallery, KL (I Printed the Blue Frog, 2004), Galeri Tangsi, KL (Growing Desires in the Science of Art, 2006), Galeri Chandan, KL (Beyond Print, 2009), The Gallery Starhill, KL (Signature, 2011), Galeri Tangsi & Barltalia, KL (Posh Art, 2011) and PurpleHouz Fine Arts, Petaling Jaya (Living Metal).