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Amron Omar is known for his numerous works in various media of his silat exponents, either singly or two, often in classic pose forms or ponderous thought. He has been painting using silat analogy since 1980. His silat exponents often imbue aspects of heroism, discipline and culture. In this suit of three watercolour studies, you see a lot of aggression with multiple fighters comic-book strip style. More than 150 selected works from his copious Pertarungan series over three decades were shown in his major solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery in 2012. He has had many major portrait commissions for royalties including reputedly the Sultan of Brunei, dignitaries and corporate captains of industry besides others like the one on his Mara Institute of Technology (ITM) art and design lecturer Dr Choong Kam Kow.Upon graduated from ITM, Amron briefly worked for an advertising company in 1983 before deciding to go fulltime into art. In 1982, he won the Minor Award in the coveted Young Contemporary Artists (BMS) exhibition with a self-portrait.

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