The clusters of clouds taking up more than half on top, functions as a ‘white’ canvas ‘holding’ up the main picture of a large perahu payang (mayang in Java) etched with outlines on its sharp protruding prows and the crowd of figures and odd contraptions on the boat. The soft edges of shadows and thin veneer of the clouds are soothingly cool as is wont of the salubrious salty sea breeze, as two slouching figures trudge across the water’s edge carrying long poles over their shoulders. A small wedge of sand buttresses the whole composition of Land, Sea and Sky. The payang boat is found mainly on the east coast, with the back trawling a kind of seine nets. The payang can accommodate even smaller sampan (boat). In 1948, eight of his works were exhibited in the Malayan Pavilion in the British Industrial Fair in London. Yong Mun Sen (nee Yen Lang), dubbed by pioneer-artist chronicler Dato' Dr. Tan Chee Khuan as the ‘Father of Malaysian Painting’, was accorded posthumous memorial exhibitions in Singapore (1966), Kuala Lumpur (National Art Gallery, March 1972) and Penang (Penang State Art Gallery, PSAG, September 1972). The PSAG honoured him with a major Retrospective in 1999. His notable solos were held in London (Malayan Pavilion, British Industrial Fair, 1948), Tasmania (Australia) and Cleveland (United States). He co-founded the Penang Chinese Art Club (1936), the Singapore Society of Chinese Artists (1936) and the Penang Art Society (1953). He set up the Tai Koon Studio in Penang 1922 (renamed Mun Sen Studio in 1930, with a branch in Northam Road the next year).