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Johan Marjonid is regarded as one of the Raja Rimba (Forest King) for his large close-up and panoramic realistic depiction of forest landscapes. His paintings are not from touristy picture postcards but own experience of spending time inside the main forest reserves in the country. He has been painting about rainforest since 1994 and had gone fulltime inot art in 2000. He has been to Royal Belum some eight times, the first two with the Perak Artists Association and more recently with his well-known artist ‘kakis’ Jaafar Taib, Abdul Rasid Yusof, Zaharuddin Sarbini, Shaparel Salleh and Kasbi Sarbini. This is the second of his Belum paintings to have come up for the Henry Butcher auction, the first smaller than this for the Oct 4, 2015 edition, which sold for a premium of RM8,260. His other HB successes were in Nov 2013, where his work fetched RM16,500; and in the Oct 2015 auction, RM7,890.Johan received his BFA from the Universiti ITM in 1992. He was chosen for the 2000 World Expo in Hannover, Germany, where he gave demonstrations.He won 1st Prize in the Malaysian Landscape competition organised by the National Art Gallery (NAG), and Consolation in the International category. He also had Consolation Prizes in the NAG’s Street-banner competition in 1992 and the Mekar Citra in Shah Alam Gallery in 2007. His first solo was at the New Straits Times’ Balai Berita, titled, Melebu Alas, in 2005. The Pontian-born artist had also taken part in the International Art Expo Malaysia in 2013 and 2015.