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Raduan Man's dream-like backyard scene fuses the ordinary with the uncanny. Using his signature method of layering paint over printed surfaces, he gives the red spiral slide, violet-tinged house, and glowing foliage a curious flatness, as if filtered through memory. The palette of murky greens and rusty violets suggests twilight half-remembered, drawn from the artist's recollections of his mother's house and the details noticed during long isolation. Two peacocks wander across the lawn, lending the scene a fairy-tale air. Animals, recurring emblems in Raduan's work, here serve as guardians of memory. The flattened space and improbable light heighten the strangeness, transforming a familiar yard into something quietly surreal: part nostalgia, part folklore, part dream. Raduan Man, the self-proclaimed farmer, achieved a double Masters - first, the University of Wolverhampton (Painting), United Kingdom, in 2003, and then the Camberwell School of Art (Printmaking), UK, in 2006. He obtained his BFA at the Universiti ITM in 2000. In his works, he combines painting and woodcut printmaking techniques. He won the Juror's Award in the Tanjung Heritage competition in 2002. His first of seven solos, all at different venues, was Fresh Markings, at NN Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. Others were at Artspace Gallery, KL (I Printed The Blue Frog, 2004), Galeri Tangsi, KL (Growing Desires In The Science Of Art, 2006), Galeri Chandan, KL (Beyond Print, 2009), The Gallery Starhill, KL (Signature, 2011), Galeri Tangsi & Barltalia, KL (Posh Art, 2011) and PurpleHouz Fine Arts, Petaling Jaya (Living Metal). He is now represented by Linda Gallery, Singapore.