TOWARDS THE END of 2020, I felt relieved that I could paint again. It freed me from the boredom of the lockdowns and I regained a much-needed sense of achievement and confidence. Based

THE YEARS 1989-91 were another watershed period for my art endeavours. Work at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia had picked up a bit and I had been thinking about

IN 1988, I doodled on a piece of tracing paper with a 0.1 Rotring pen. A4 in size and called “Expressions”, I liked it very much, however, I did not pursue the

MOST OF US experience the mundane everyday. This is quite fine, actually. Necessary, in fact. Everyday things anchor us to reality and allow life to function “normally”. Art, however, cannot be ordinary. Much

WHEN COVID-19 STRUCK in early 2020, I was, like all other people, extremely disoriented. We had to drop our mainstay activities and plans to train students on leadership and soft skills. Our English