Born in Alor Setar in 1948, Sharifah Fatimah is an eighth- generation descendant of a privileged Hadramawt family. But the confident Sharifah Fatimah, who marched to the beat of her own drum, had already mapped out her path clearly. Like the three literary Brontë sisters or the famed artistic Pollock brothers, Sharifah Fatimah also grew up with creative siblings. I still have some of the tudung she made for me,” Sharifah Fatimah says a little wistfully. Maybe this was the way God told me to do something else instead of just painting,” Sharifah Fatimah laughs.

Source: The Edge Markets September 13, 2017 06:56 UTC