Though the palette is busy, the pigments are more subdued, coaxing and genial to one another, more attuned to the lyrical-geometry of Richard Diebiekorn, and his Ocean Park oeuvre. Thus, the West Coast place-marking as when the bohemian traveller-artist Rafiee Ghani wended his way in the West Coast of the United States, particularly California and Oregon. It came after a long spell of abstract expressionism with Fauvist fervour and before he launched into a phase of figures in his Rainbow Warriors series. Rafiee Ghani is one of the most well-travelled and cosmopolitan artists, on land, traversing central and western Asia, besides Europe and the United States. All adding to his visual colour bank which he synthesizes in his works. He got a degree overseas first, at the De Vrije Academic, Voor Bildeende Kunst, The Hague (1980) before returning to retake his Diploma, Mara Institute of Technology, 1985, (majoring in Printmaking trained under Ponirin Amin). He followed up with a MA (Fine Prints) at the Manchester Polytechnic, England, in 1987. His accolades include the Minor Award in the Salon Malaysia (1991) and twice in the Young Contemporary Artists competition (1984 and 1985). He also won 2nd Prize in the Malaysian Art Open in 1994.