In this exquisite canvas by one of Malaysia's leading female artists, Dato' Sharifah Fatimah, thick and colourful strokes were applied across the canvas in an enticing palette, revealing mesmerising golden hues beneath. The interplay of bejewelled shapes, linked and unlinked, geometric and organic, is concentrated in the central area, but is not confined to the centre. The mood it evokes is one of calm, quiet, and comforting. The whole painting 'being' has become a spiritual journey. It is couched in her Mindscape series, done in the early half of the 1990s. Dato' Sharifah Fatimah has fashioned a unique brand of abstract art imbued with strong spiritual values, symbolisms and local colours. She graduated from MARA Institute of Technology in 1971 with the Best Student Award. Her first solo followed in 1972 at the Alpha Gallery in Singapore. She graduated with First Class Honours for her BFA at Reading University, England in 1976. She was awarded the JDR III Fund Fellowship to do her Masters at the Pratt Institute, New York from 1976 to 1978. Her awards include the Minor Award, Malaysian Landscapes (1972), the Major Award, Salon Malaysia (1979), and the Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artist in 1981. She was a curator at the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur from 1982 to 1989, before turning a fulltime artist in 1990.