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The rich colours, elegantly painted shapes, and overall sense of visual lightness are hallmarks of the artist's style. In Image Zee, the artist employs a range of graceful shapes to construct a delicately luminous composition. The work demonstrates an experimental orchestration of form and colour, where the play of overlapping shapes recalls the compositional approach of Henri Matisse's paper cut-outs. Dato' Sharifah Fatimah has played a pivotal role in the advancement of Malaysian abstract art. A member of the pioneering cohort of Fine Art graduates from the Mara Institute of Technology (now Universiti Teknologi Mara), she furthered her studies at the University of Reading, United Kingdom, and the Pratt Institute, United States. Widely recognised as the First Lady of Malaysian Abstraction, her distinguished career includes major accolades such as the Salon Malaysia Major Award (1979), the Malaysian Landscape Competition Minor Award (1972), the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) Award (1981), and Third Prize at the Islamic World Painting Biennial in Tehran (2003). In 2006, she was conferred the title of Dato' by the Sultan of Kedah.