EXHIBITED:
Art Kaohsiung , Artdoor Gallery, Kaohsiung, December 9-11, 2016
Art Shenzhen , Artdoor Gallery, September 15-18, 2017

This painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

The well-known Malaysian abstract painter Awang Damit Ahmad is born in 1956, he received the Diploma in Art and Design (Fine Art) Institute Teknologi MARA in Malaysia, then obtained his MFA in Painting from the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. The artist's unique style of heavy strokes make up the abstract picture in full, tied to local culture, and agriculture, fishery background in the upbringing memories, in the face of the current changes in the climate and environment, his creativity is the result of the meticulous observation of such issues. His works turned out the be the fusion different senses, with sense of smell, sense of hearing, sense of vision and sensational feelings, that further establish his significance in the Malaysian contemporary art scene.

In 1983, he was awarded as the most outstanding student prizes of the Fine Arts Department of Mara University of Technology, besides numerous prizes. The works of Ahmad were widely exhibited in the National Art Museum of Malaysia, and were collected and represented in several important exhibitions in Taiwan. , China, Bangladesh, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Germany, Poland and Africa. His works are very well-received to many and appealed to worldwide collectors.

Awang Damit Ahmad has developed a series of works, from 1985 onwards till 1996, the painter began to find his own culture of the course and resulted Essence of Culture. From 1996-2002, the series of the Recalling the Past (Marista) series was built upon his childhood memories, he recorded his childhood memories of fishing village in Borneo, Sabah. Ahmad visualized the intuitive image memory with bold brush strokes, and controls the paint between figurative and abstract. The Northeast Monsoon (Iraga) is the expression of his personal experience as a fisherman's son. The present lot of “Payarama Baru” (Orangan Merah) belongs to his r ecent series of “Payarama”, this series of works begins from his retirement from the faculty, he bought an orchard and enjoyed painting within the farm. With a humble personality, when he searches the meaning and value of life he is also cultivating his minds in expressed through his creations in art.