Born in 1934 in Kubang Krian, Kelantan, Khalil Ibrahim is one of the few Malaysians who received a state scholarship to attend art training at the prestigious Central St Martins School of Art and Design in London. Throught his long career spanning over 50 years, Khalil Ibrahim has held many solo and group exhibitions in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Switzerland. His skills in drawing, watercolour and acrylic, are in styles that move from the almost real to the almost abstract.
Khalil's preference for the human figure has led to memorable images of men and women in the East Coast Malay fishing villages against stark backgrounds of blues and greens and watercolour landscape of villages.
Today, 76 years-old Khalil continues to paint to his heart's desire, grossed over the canvas in front of him and surrounded by countless painbrushes and bottles of paint in his homecum-studio in Petaling Jaya.
