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The mind wanders relentlessly, inexorably, into areas of nebulous shapes and in motley colours, large and small, and even across demarcated terrains, with the constellations of irregular blobs captured in a static stasis. Mindscape is Dato' Sharifah Fatimah Zubir's artistic perambulations, as did others as a ruminative foray, like those by Datuk Ibrahim Hussein, Latiff Mohidin and Dato' Tajuddin Ismail. Everything looks so busy, with judicious overlaps here and there, with the eye taken on a wild goose chase by coloured walking sticks. Dato' Sharifah Fatimah, at 77, has grown immeasurably in stature as a pioneering batch of Fine Art students graduating from the Mara Institute of Technology (ITM), now a university. She is rightly dubbed the First Lady of Malaysian Abstraction having had her art education also at Reading University, England, and Pratt Institute, USA. Accolades like the Major Award in the Salon Malaysia 1979, the Minor Awards in the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972 and the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) Award in 1981, and 3rd Prize in the Islamic World Painting Biennial in Teheran, Iran in 2003, boost her credentials. In 2006, she was conferred the Datoship by the Sultan of Kedah.