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It goes without saying that Khalil Ibrahim was and posthumously remains the most important artist in the Malaysian art landscape. Khalil was born to paint. While he began his career as a self-taught painter, the artist foresaw a future in art which prompted a move to Kerdau in 1957. There, he was introduced to Claude Gibb Ferguson, the Temerloh District officer at the time. With Ferguson as his mentor, Khalil was introduced to the Sultan of Pahang, HRH Sultan Abu Bakar Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mu’adzam Shah by Ferguson, who would later offer the artist a Pahang State Government scholarship to the prestigious St.Martin School of Art in Sept 1960. The strict and disciplined teaching at St.Martin meant that most of Khalil’s time was spent learning the fundamentals of drawing and the study of the human form. Subsequent subjects involved painting in watercolours and oils as well as the various techniques relating to the composition of colour, form and composition.