“What is that?” parents and child trying to figure out if the piece is really art.

Rimbun Dahan owner Angela Hijjas, Tuanku Zara Davidson, Regent of Perak Raja Nazrin Shah, WWF Malaysia CEO Dr Dionysius Sharma and Hijjas Kasturi of architectural firm Hijjas Kasturi Associates who sponsored the event.

Malacca-based artist Australian Michelle Cohen with filmmaker duo Ahmad Yazid and Lydia Lubon.

WWF Malaysia CEO Dr Dionysius Sharma addressing the crowd.

“Go back to Perak and plant another democracy tree to make up for the one that was damaged,” Angela Hijjas seems to be saying to Tuanku Zara Davidson while Raja Nazrin Shah looks absolutely delighted that he has one to plant too.

Regent of Perak Raja Nazrin Shah making jokes about speakers, not of the loud kind, with backdrop of Helen Bodycomb’s Tanah Air Constellation (Lucky Stars)

Lady of the moment….the show’s curator and artist Nor Mahnun Mohamed receiving praises from the Rakyat. This year’s show raised nearly twice as much as the last.

Nor Mahnun Mohamed showing Raja Nazrin Shah Glenn Romanis’ Rings of Time while Dr Dionysius Sharma looks on.

Raja Nazrin Shah wishes Rimbun Dahan resident artist Monika Behrens the best of luck judging from the response to Australian art works historically.

Expatriate Lifestyle magazine executive editor Sam Coleman with VWFA manager Snow Ng, Unicef Malaysia chief for private sector fundraising and partnerships Choon Bow Bow and Boh Plantations Sdn Bhd CEO Caroline Russell.

Collector Lim Edin Nom posing with his latest prized acquisition Bayu Utomo Radjikin’s Infinity for RM60,000 striking a pose with Raja Nazrin Shah.

Hijjas Kasturi with Raja Nazrin Shah together with Annette, wife of Malaysia Airports managing director Bashir Ahmad and their daughter Sasha who is an actor, dancer, writer and TV host.

Madeleine Mayberry Ee wants a portrait done of her like in the painting behind by Lynyrd Paras’s I Still Remember the Old Place But Not You.

Artist Abdul Muthalib Musa with fiancée Fairuz and her sisters Janna, Aishah, Awatif, Yanti and their mother Maimun. The others are still single.

Trying to save turtles…Inaara Imran and Mathilde Alauzet with Shiah Yih Yiing’s Kancil:Kelisa

Landscape architect and artist Carolyn Lau with former visiting Rimbun Dahan artist Helen Bodycomb, Glenn Romanis (artist of the work Rings of Time) with Carey Humphrey and shy daughter Martha.

WWF’s Dylan Jefri Ong and Sarah Sukor with Erna Dyanty’s The Crown Shyness Effect

Alexander Wong and sister Wong May Kwan going through Meme’s Untitled aka Tanah Air like a story book.

Amin, Khalid, artist Ahmad Shukri Mohamed and Ahmad.

A third of RogueArt, Beverly Yong with Ramesh Subramaniam, office space designer M. Moser Associates director Adrian Symons and Nor Mahnun Mohamed.

Tengku Alina Azzizudin, Raja Annuar and sculptor Raja Shahriman with Hamir Soib @ Mohamed’s Burning #2

Rimbun Dahan 2005 resident artist Choy Chun Wei and hellboy Munkao.

Tune Hotels marketing GM Michelle-Ann Iking, Cradle Investment Programme’s Ellyne Lamin and Diyana Lamin with Monika Behrens’ Gastronomic Transformer

"Is he laughing at us?” Justin Lim and Pakhruddin Sulaiman trying to figure out Samsudin Wahab’s Double Portrait and Death

Choy Chun Wei and Abdul Muthalib Musa with the latter’s Pedra Branca

Fendi Jamaluddin, Jalaini Abu Hassan and Nizam Rahmat.

Collector Ng Sek San with Galeri Chandan MD Nazli Aziz and artist Nizam Rahmat looking at the future of Malaysia’s art scene.

LimKokWing University of Creative Technology’s marketing staff Kotryna Stankute, Sanja Malenic, Egle Zuziviciute and Audra Pakalnyte dining local stall fare above the gallery. Now we know why it manages to attract so many students.

Hayati Mokhtar and Dain Iskandar Said’s presenting Travel in Mind to guests.

Rimbun Dahan resident artist Monika Behrens and partner Rochelle Haley flanked by Mathilde Alauzet and Inaara Imran.

Rochelle Haley, Mt. Kinabalu, 2009 Incised paper 29 x 39cm.

Megan Keating, Song Cycle No 1, 2 and 3 (2007). Acrylic on linen, 36 x 42cm.

Jalaini Abu Hassan, Romen Kebun Getah, 2009, Mixed media on canvas, 152 x 152cm.

Saiful Razman, Komplot, 2009, Mixed media on canvas, 183 x 183cm.

Monika Behrens, Gastronomic Transformer, 2009, Oil on linen, 122 x 91cm

Ahmad Shukri Mohamed, MyKad, 2009, Mixed media on canvas, 178 x 151.5cm x 2 (diptych).

Samsudin Wahab, Double Portrait with Death, 2009, Acrylic & bitumen on canvas, 183 x 153cm.

Bibi Chew, Kelahiran I-IV, 2009, Shellac on modeling board, 42.8 x 21cm each.

Wong Perng Fay, Shadow of My Dream 2008, Oil on Canvas, 170 x 220cm.

Chang Yoong Chia, Self-Portrait as A Landscape III, 2008, Charcoal on paper, 42 x 50cm.

Collectors Farouk and Aliya Khan with artist Askandar Unglehrt with his Liberty – Equality – Fraternity, 2009, Hand manipulated magazine prints, enlarged on canvas (permanent ink) and mounted on board, 77.5 x 57.5cm (triptych).

“This is mine!” Ng Sek San seems to be saying of Bayu Utomo Radjikin’s Infinity, 2009, Acrylic on canvas 200 x 300cm.

Angela Hijjas with French-based Malaysian and 2000 Rimbun Dahan resident artist Chong Siew Ying who is glad to be able to make it for this year’s exhibition.