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The graceful charm of a female Balinese dancer is captured with a sense of immediacy, reflecting the artist's ability to translate memories and emotion through delicate strokes of watercolour. From the refined design of the headdress to the illuminated sheen and folds of the dancer's robes, Chang Fee Ming's sophisticated painting showcases his skill in rendering textures. His impressions of his travels across different landscapes in Asia documents his observations of the lives of the people and culture, stunningly portrayed using the luminous and translucent medium of watercolour. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s - Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.