a Suzlee and The Monsoon Series: An Introduction Visual language is a universal language being the key to the knowledge of science communication. It is a vehicle to passing knowledge, interaction between human being and advancement to life quality improvement. The process of producing art may look easy to some people. However, to those who are involved in the making of art knew that it took very long hours, days, months and sometimes years to produce good arts. No doubt it is tiring but the result of a good piece of art is worth the effort.  High spirits and strong beliefs in what you do is the secret to stay long in scene and produce excellent art with souls and high quality. “The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.” - Pablo Picasso A good art is the expression of its creator. The artist should make art from love, sensitivity, desire, responsibility, likes, dislikes, anger or inner expression that has lost words but anxious to come out from the artist’s mind.    The latest of Suzlee’s work clearly walks towards these aggressive and wild feelings of expressions. The Monsoon Series (2009) is an advancement of a short experimental work named the Ombak Series (Wave Series) in 2007. Both series started after the very long year of Movement Series, which started in 1995 – 2005. In the Movement Series, the action involved psychomotor skills of the artist’s mobility. The brushes and painting tools moved and danced on the canvas with the artist’s instinct and mood experiencing nature. In both Ombak and Monsoon Series, his experience with the wilderness of the Monsoon season becomes the drive to initiate actions. Suzlee was born and brought up in Kuala Terengganu, in the east coast of the Peninsular of Malaysia. The east coast receives massive rain towards the end of the year due to the Monsoon season. When he was small and at tender age, his witnessed pain and strive of the kampong people whom many were rubber tappers, farmers and fishermen survived the season. It is a season that keeps sad, sad stories of kampong people that sheltered underneath roofs made of leaves and wooden houses. Their agony, their worries and pains do not receive any sympathies from the fierce winds that blow down the kampong or heavy rain that drown the land.      The memory of the heavy rain and harsh seas of the monsoon season have inspired Suzlee to paint the new series named the Monsoon Series. Still, without concentrating on any images, he expressed complex brush strokes, textures and skilled composition using limited colours on the canvases, producing purely abstract expressionist -‘action paintings’. For the past 20 years, both acrylic and oil are the two main medium used on canvases for his all paintings. Although both Ombak and Monsoon Series are his memories of the seas in his hometown, Ombak Series paintings have different mood. It is less aggressive in its presentation and use vibrant colours as highlights. The Monsoon Series focuses on dark, murky weather of the monsoon season and strong waves and current made from strong winds. These are shown in the use of limited secondary colours and fast, strong strokes on the canvases. Suzlee is not new in Malaysian art scene. This exhibition is Suzlee’s 16th solo exhibition. Suzlee obtained his art education from the Institute of Technology, Shah Alam (1987) in fine arts. He showed his works in more than five hundred group exhibitions, local and overseas such as the United Kingdom, USA, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Brazil, Cuba, Spain, Canada, China, Japan, Argentina, Greece, Poland, UAE, Australia, Bangladesh and Nepal. Among the collectors of his artworks from the previous series are National Art Gallery / Balai Seni Lukis Negara (Movement Series, Highgrove, 2001), Central Bank of Malaysia / Bank Negara (Movement Series, Tulip 1, 2004), EMAAR Properties, Dubai, UAE (Space Series, Construction 4,2005), Remise Academy, Brande, Denmark (Spirit of The Wind, 2002), The City Gallery Leicester, England (Between the lines) and Blue Sea / Lautan Biru (2005) from the last of Movement Series is the collection of His Majesty The Yang Di-pertuan Agong Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin. For this exhibition, Suzlee specially presented 27 pieces of the best of Monsoon Series displayed at the Pinkguy Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. It is Suzlee’s main concern to let Pinkguy Gallery as his representative to the new and definitely exclusive arts for serious collectors and art enthusiasts.   Commentary: ‘MONSOON’, Pinkguy Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 2010 (ISBN 978-967-5563-00-3)        a [Announcement - Suzlee Ibrahim - 7Ko - 2010]

The Kingdom: Painting The Expression Monsoon Series had successfully met and won many hearts at Suzlee’s last Solo Exhibition in 2009. To close the dynamic year of Suzlee’s painting career in 2011, Suzlee has produced another new series of work called ‘The Kingdom’. [Page - Suzlee Ibrahim - 9Ko - 2012]

Movement is life New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd.; Sep 13, 2001 [Page - Suzlee Ibrahim - 5Ko - 2008]

Abstract Expressionist artist Suzlee Ibrahim New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd.; Sep 7, 2001 [Page - Suzlee Ibrahim - 3Ko - 2008]

Suzlee’s art is collected by serious collectors and public figures -The Malay Mail, MALAYSIA; April 26, 2001 [Page - Suzlee Ibrahim - 2Ko - 2008]

, B I O G R A P H Y   Name: , SUZLEE  IBRAHIM ,   , Address: , Lecturer , Faculty of Art & Design , MARA University of Technolofgy , Shah Alam , 43650 MALAYSIA   http:// www.suzlee.cjb.net , http:// suzlee99.tripod.com , email: suzlee@suzlee.cjb.net , or mrsuzlee@hotmail.com , tel: +6 01 260 25 260 ,   , , ,   , , International Honorary Artistic Committee ,   , - International Honorary Artistic Committee for the three mail art exhibitions in Greece, Museum G. Katsigra (Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa), Larissa/ Thessaly,  GREECE (8 December 2007) ,   ,   , Membership:- ,   , -Membership of the PPM, Malaysia; 1990 , -Membership of the APS, Malaysia; 1997 , -Membership of the friends of Bankside Gallery, London, UK; 2000/01 , (Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers); 2000/01 , -Membership of the friends of The City Gallery, Leicester, UK; 2000/01 , -Membership of the Kelab Seni Lukis Hulu Langat, Selangor; 2005 , -Membership of the Avisen-Avk Art Gallery, Rodby, Denmark; 2005 , -Member of The Millennium Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA; 2005 , -Membership of The CONNEX24H Artists, Kangasto, FINLAND; 2006 , -Membership of The International Miniart Exchange Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil; 2007 ,   ,   , , , Appointed Judge for Art Competition/ Invited Speaker:- ,   , 1997: - Appointed Judge for 60th Anniversary Utusan Group Logo Competition, KL , 1998: - Invited as a Panelist for Expression Exhibition 98, Ipoh, Perak , 2001: - Appointed Judge for Art Competition, PKNS Complex (Bandar Baru Bangi), Kajang , 2003: - Appointed Judge for Art Competition, MPPJ (Hari Kitar Semula), PJ Selangor - Appointed Judge for Art Competition, Recycle Campaign and 3rd Anniversary Shah Alam Bandaraya, Shah Alam , 2004: - Invited Speaker, Visual Art Workshop 2004, UKM, Bangi - Invited Speaker, KL Fashion Week (Sulaman Kreatif), Legend Hotel, Kuala Lumpur , 2005: - Art Talk (Dubai Experience), Galeri Seni, UiTM, Shah Alam - Appointed Judge for Art Competition, ‘Good Agriculture‘, Kementerian Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani Malaysia, Putrajaya , 2006: - Appointed Judge for Art Competition : 'Warisan Terengganu', Muzium Terengganu, Terengganu - Appointed Judge for Art Competition : 'KENYIR', Ketengah, Terengganu , 2007: - Appointed Judge for Art Competition : 'Citra Terengganu', Muzium Terengganu, Terengganu - Appointed Judge for Art Competition : 'Memahat Sejarah Mencipta Tamadun', Muzium Terengganu, Terengganu ,   , 2008: - Appointed Judge for Art Competition/ Exhibition: Shah Alam Open 2008, Shah Alam Gallery, Shah Alam, Selangor  - Appointed Judge for Art Competition: Terengganu Open 2008, Muzium Terengganu, Terengganu   2009: - Appointed Judge for Art Competition/ Exhibition: Shah Alam Open 2009, Shah Alam Gallery, Shah Alam, Selangor   2010: - Appointed Judge for MMK0910, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur - Appointed Judge for Poster Competition, SME Bank, Menara SME, Kuala Lumpur   ,   , , , , Solo Exhibitions:-   1998 : Movement Series I, Shah Alam Gallery, Shah Alam , 1999 : The Notion of Gesture, Elm Quay Fine Arts Gallery, KL , 2000 : Movement Series III, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK , 2001 : Movement Series-UK (invited artists: Dr. Colin Gale, Birmingham, United Kingdom);     Galeriseni, FSSR, UiTM, Shah Alam : Movement Series V, Shah Alam Gallery, Shah Alam : Movement Series, Main Lobby, Balai Berita, NSTP, KL , 2002 : Open Studio : Artist Studio, Jalan Mempari, Meru, Klang , 2003 : Open Studio : Artist Studio, Jalan Mempari, Meru, Klang , 2004 : Open Studio : Artist Studio, Jalan Mempari, Meru, Klang : Artists Space, Concorde Hotel, Shah Alam , 2005 : Recent paintings, Maya Gallery, Bangsar, KL , 2006 : Foundation (Introduction), Gemarimba Gallery, Bukit Tunku, KL , 2007 : Artist Collection, Galeri Pusat Kebudayaan, Dectar, UKM (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia), Bangi : Artists Space, Concorde Hotel Shah Alam, Selangor   2009 : RED Wall, Shah Alam Gallery, Shah Alam, Selangor   2010 : Monsoon Series, PINKGUY Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur : Gestures, Galeri 2929, Faculty of Fine Art Aswara, Jalan Ledang, Kuala Lumpur   ,   ,   [Biography - Suzlee Ibrahim - 13Ko]