Grace Selvanayagam is one of Malaysia’s early textile artists, and a songket textile scholar. This work of an Indian woman carrying brass pots of water on her head (a typical village scene in India) is unique because it is a rare figurative early work by her. Painted in warm colours, the artwork is a celebration of daily life, expressed through the diligent nature of the lady. Grace Selvanayagam was a graduate in Textile art from the University of Bristol, UK. She taught in Specialist Teacher’s Training Institute in Cheras, KL together with Syed Ahmad Jamal. In her later life, she lived in JB and had also taught in Singapore. She wrote the book, Songket: Malaysia’s Woven Treasure. She did her research in East Coast with the support of Prof Ungku Aziz. Grace was very much an abstract artist. Her works were displayed at the NUS Museum, Singapore in 2017.