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Chang Fee Ming attains artistic inspirations from traveling and has produced a number of sketches, drawings and paintings from the places he visits. He has been researching and working on the source of the Mekong, in Yunnan, Tibet and Qinhai between 2005 and 2007 and has produced a body of work titled Mekong a series based on seven years of earlier research and travel. In his works, he tackles a variety of topics from the places he visits such as the market and meeting place; culture and tradition; work and livelihood; rest and leisure, garden and landscape. A Daily Practice II was created during his sojourn in Tibet, illustrating a figure resting on a bed of rocks. Chang Fee Ming is an accomplished watercolourist known for his unique renditions and interpretations of peoples, traditional societies and their cultures and the often exotic, remote places he visited in Indonesia, Nepal, Africa and the Indo-Chinese communities along the Mekong right up to its source in Tibet. Since his first foray to Bali in 1985, he has etched his place in Indonesian art history, especially in Bali. His array of awards includes the Malaysian Watercolour Society award (1984 and 1985), the Sime Darby Art Asia gold award (1985) and the PNB Malaysian art award (1985). He also won the Minor Awards in the Young Contemporary Artists competition in 1986 and 1987. He won distinction awards in the Rockport Publishers USA in 1997 and the Dom Pérignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award (Malaysia) in 1999. He was a co-winner (Malaysia) of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition in 1999. In 2009, he was selected for the Singapore Tyler Print Institute project in 2009, which resulted in his solo exhibition Imprinted Thoughts. REFERENCE Sketching Through Southeast Asia, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, 2010.