These works on paper were created when the artist was studying art abroad, and is a testament to her early talents. The artist’s exploration of space is well expressed through the forms and colours, resulting in a poetic composition of balanced elements. Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Zubir is without doubt one of the greatest women artists in Malaysia today, with a body of astonishing unequalled works. She is from the pioneering batch of fine art students from the Mara Institute of Techbology (now a university) graduating in 1971. She studied for her BFA at the Reading University, England, in 1973-1976, and her MFA at the Pratt Institute, New York, in 1976-1978, under the JDR III Fund fellowship. She won the Minor Award in the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972 and the 1981 Bakat Muda Sezaman. In 1979, she won the coveted Major Award in the Salon Malaysia. In 2007, she was conferred the Dato’ title by the Sultan of Kedah. Her other awards include 3rd Prize 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Painting of the Islamic World in Tehran, Iran, in 2003. Prices of her artworks have been soaring high recently in auction houses locally and abroad.