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In this portrait of a young girl looking directly at the viewer, Kow Leong Kiang captures a breezy day suggested by her waving fringe, imbuing the work with a sense of immediacy. This work is executed with warm and harmonious tones in soft, natural day light. Kow has explored various nuances of figurative style drawings and paintings since the Innocence and Malay Girl series. Kow Leong Kiang stamped his class when he clinched Southeast Asia's most coveted prize, the Grand Prize of the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards, in the finals in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1998, with his work, Mr. Foreign Speculator, Stop Damaging Our Country. Other accolades include the Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) competition in 1992 and the Major Award in the National Day competition. His art residences include the Vermont Studio Centre, USA (2004) and the Tembi Contemporary in Yogyakarta, and he had featured in Art Busan, Art Formosa, Art Stage Singapore and Art Expo Malaysia. His painting of Mahsuri for the cover of Ooi Kok Chuen's novel, MAHSURI A Legend Reborn (2016), has been dubbed the Malaysian Mona Lisa. Kow graduated from the Kuala Lumpur College of Art in 1991.