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Nothing beats a refreshing dip in a swimming pool, especially on a hot day in a plush residential condominium setting or clubhouse. Lounging on a deckchair with a partner sipping fruit juice amidst a well manicured garden. And a blue-tiled pool at that, with a sense of depth. The arc lines in the pool trace the water quadrant. This is from Noor Mahnun Mohamed's Swimming Pool Series, of which she did three pieces. The work is somewhat reminescent of David Hockney's A Bigger Splash with flat Pop colours in sunny California, and different from her anticipated surreal repertoire of interior domestic life... Splash! Noor Mahnun Mohamed, better known as Anum, is one artist who strayed from the usual art citadels of Britain and the United States, being trained in Germany - like Latiff Mohidin - earning her BFA and then MFA at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, in Braunschweig. Her other tutelage was in Florence (International School of Print and Graphic Il Bisonte) and Japan (Nippon Foundation grant for Digital Archive for Printmaking). She was also an artist-in-residence at the Gunnery Studios in Sydney. Her Am Abend (1993) rose to a RM235,200 premium at the Henry Butcher April 29, 2018. Her international profile preceded her return: solos in Florence in Italy, and Braunschweig (twice), besides 2nd Prize in the Alpirsbach Galerie competition. She was also an artist-in-residence at Rimbun Dahan, which she later briefly managed.