THAI PRINTMAKING

Chaisak Chaiboon was born in 7 May 1959 in Thailand. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from the faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University. After graduation, he worked at Amarin Printing and Publishing as an editor for art department of famous Thai magazines such as Baan Lae Suan (Home and Garden), Preaw and Preaw Sudsabd (Variety magazine for women). From 1994 to 2002, he set up his own publishing and advertising company, Contemplate Advertising. After that, he focused solely on printmaking.
-- Janine Yasovant

 

By Janine Yasovant

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Widsanupong Noonan

Widsanupong Noonan started painting while at university. He studied in the faculty of Architecture, Department of Fine Arts, King Monkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand. He received a best student award for two years, in 2005 and 2006. In 2007 he had his own art exhibition and he got a first class honour degree from the institute.

 

He won many painting competitions during that time. Most of his works are very large. They are realistic paintings mixed with sculpting using oil color on fiberglass. He expresses his own dreams on sculpting partly while painting  He got master's degree (a MFA  in the Program of Visual Arts, Department of painting, Faculty of Painting, Sculptures and graphic arts, Silpakorn University

Noonan who does painting and sculpting concurrently.  I asked, “Is there anyone who works in the same way as you?” 

 

"As far as I know, this is my original idea” he replied “It is coincidental that the surface of fiberglass is suitable, so I can draw and sculpt anything on it.”

GALLERY

 

'Born as a girl in this land is a proof of her physical and mental strengths since she is young. It is so different from boys. The society is biased towards male. Families are encouraged by the custom to have a boy rather than a girl. There I saw a young girl in a tiny village. She walked and carried two clay pots on her head. It looked like she was accustomed to this but the pots seemed heavy. She looked at me while I took a photo of her. I guessed it might be the first time of her life to be photographed.' -- Udom Wanjing

UDOM WANJING
Udom Wanjing is an award-winning independent artist and a guest lecturer teaching art in many universities in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He was selected by Kasikorn Bank in Thailand to design an addition to honor the heroism of the Thai Army.

 

In 2003, he exhibited his works in an exhibition at Salle Nougaro (Airbus) in Tulus, France. A year later he brought traditional Thai painting to exhibit at The Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm. In 2015, and again in 2016, he visited India, and sketched his impressions, oil pastel on cotton. He also works with charcoal on canvas.  -- Janine Yasovant [WC News Service]

                                                   

 

Sa-ad Tanomwong

 

THAI ARTIST PIONEERS REALISM

By Janine Yasovant

[WC News Service]

It is so interesting to talk about a Thai artist, Sa-ad Tanomwong, whose work I've followed for several years. He is an independent artist that I always admired and who I have wanted to write about -- his life and work. In December 2016, he agreed to be interviewed show me some of his works.

 

The artist

Sa-ad Tanomwong was born in Klaeng District, Rayong Province, Thailand. He graduated from Poh Chang academy of art. He began his artistic career as movie poster painter, taught art subjects at Santirad school and then worked for the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok.

 

After he resigned from the last job, in 1971, he eventually got a job at a USIS organization as an art illustrator and this was the beginning of his full-time artist life. When he was working for the USIS Thailand with another eight artists, he had an idea to create art that looked exciting and independent because he had inspiration from a foreign artist who drew powerful realistic paintings of wild horses.

MULTI-TALENTED THAI ARTIST

 

Janine Yasovant, of the WC News Service, reports on Decha Warashoon

Decha Warashoon

Works by Professor Decha Warashoon, an art lecturer and Thai national artist (Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, and Mix Media Arts) in 2007, are shown here. Warashoon graduated from the School of Arts and Crafts in Bangkok, an institution that focuses mainly on artistic skills. Warashoon himself frequently makes replicas of his works as samples and as teaching materials for his students. From 1967, he has exhibited widely in Thailand and abroad and has won many well-known art competitions. He was also the first visual Thai national artist to be awarded eight honorary PhD. degrees. Apart from painting in oils, watercolours, and acrylic, Warashoon is also interested in printmaking and in making leather bags and hats. He also sculpts, mainly Buddha's image.

The Buddha Image in Art

GRACEFUL AND SERENE

By Janine Yasovant

[WC News Service] 

Yothin Narasak

The Buddha image is a symbol of gracefulness that many art collectors seek. It is said by many that Chiang Mai is the city of culture and religion. In the city center, outside the city wall, temples can be seen in every two kilometers. Each temple has paintings and sculptures that are the symbol of the Buddha. Many Thai northern artists are working as teachers and art lecturers. Apart from teaching or making their own art, they occasionally paint murals in temples or sculpt Buddha images for temples. This involves a mixture of faith and the development of an artistic knowledge they already have.     

 

Yothin Narasak is a northern artist from Chiang Mai who has had a number of interesting commissioned works to draw the head of Buddha on teakwood. His works have unique beauty; many have mentioned his works as “naïve art.'

 

TRADITIONAL ART...

 

 

'...SEMI THAI'

By Janine Yasovant

[WC News Service]

The artist

Chaiwat Kamfun is a lecturer from Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna and an artist of Thai traditional art, though he defines his style of work “semi Thai traditional” which contains impressive dimensions of dynamic movement.

 

His works are mostly related to Thai culture and tradition. Chaiwat has received awards from several art contests and has participated in art exhibitions in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. His works focus mainly on movements of natural phenomena and imaginative animals in Thai mythology and Thai traditional patterns like garuda and naga.

Thai Artist...

  

Vichit Chaiwong...

Thai artist Vichit Chaiwong's studio has been an impressive meeting point of foreign art collectors who reside or have visited Chiang Mai, Thailand. The gallery-studio also doubles as Chaiwong home and exhibit and event space. 

GALLERY: VIVICHA YODNIL

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The Artist

Rocks,
Sea, 
Sky

By Janine Yasovant

[WC News Service]

Thai artist Vivicha Yodnil produces impressive realistic seascapes. He attempts to capture natural images of rocks, sand, a calm sea, and clear blue sky.

 

He says, 'My love of rocks, sea and sky began from the journey to Samet island, Rayong province, Thailand, when I was just a freshman of the faculty of painting, sculpture and graphic arts. Silpakorn University. Around forty years ago, the senior students took the first year students. I thought that was my love at first sight with scenery of the island. After that I went there several times on my own during the study at the university and after graduation. Another time I was at the area of Lung Wang bay for over a year. As usual, I painted rocks, sea, and sky. Later, I also traveled to some famous islands and Provinces in Thailand such as Samui island, Phuket Province, Similan island, Krabi Province and Trang Provinces. I think this is my deep love because I don’t want to change my way of painting from the nature of rocks, sea, and sky to something else.'

Gallery

 Thai Nudes by Janwit Chaisee

Janwit Chaisee, a young Thai artist who graduated from the faculty of fine arts, sculpting and printmaking at Silpakorn University Thailand, was born in Pattani Province in the South of Thailand. In May 2015, he had solo art exhibit called “Kon” ("Human") at People’s Gallery in the Bangkok Art and Culture Center. His impressive works are realistic. Most of his pictures are oil paintings of Thai women in different poses and in various costumes. The works focus on Thai women of the past. Chaisee has had many contemporary art exhibitions since studying at Silpakorn University. In 2010, he joined in the 27^th Contemporary Arts for Young Artists show. In 2011, he contributed his works to the Art of the Ganesha show at the Silpakorn Art Center. In 2014, he exhibited his art thesis for the faculty of fine arts, sculpting and printmaking at Silpakorn University.  -- Janine Yasovant in Bangkok     

          

Thai Art Show

 The 9^th solo art exhibition of Sriwan Janehuttakarnkit was held last month and through this month at Wangna Theater, Bunditpatanasilpa Institute. The exhibition was called "Dharma, Nature, and Normality." Sriwan is a famous Thai art lecturer, formerly at Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok, but now is retired. She obtained a bachelor’s degree and a master's degree in printmaking from Silpakorn University. From 2004, she has had selected solo and group exhibitions several times in Thailand and abroad. After her retirement, she moved from Bangkok to near the Mekong River.  On the day I visited Sriwan Janehuttakarnkit at her house near Golden Triangle, Chiang Saen District, Chiang Rai Province, she told me that she had just finished murals at a temple at “Doi Sa Ngo” mountain and was preparing the 9^th solo art exhibition. I also saw the art gallery she built to house some of her paintings, sculptures, and ceramics for the exhibition. 

-- Janine Yasovant

THAI ARTIST NARONGDECH SUDJAI

Narongdech Sudjai

Narongdech Sudjai is a Thai artist who's famous among foreign art collectors. He also does mural paintings. He lives in Chiang Saen District, Chiang Rai Province in the north of Thailand. There foreign visitors come to visit the Golden Triangle, where the Mekong River flows past Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos. Chiang Saen is a city with long historical background. It used to be the frontier city of the Lanna Empire. Sudjai is originally from Bangkok, but many years ago he decided to settle in Chiang Saen. He now runs a studio called the Opium Art Gallery in front of the Opium Museum, near the Golden Triangle. 

-- Janine Yasovant

Watana Kreetong

'On the Road' with Thai Artist

By Janine Yasovant

[WC News Service]

Recently I had a chance to meet he Thai artist Watana Kreetong in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He was born in Chumporn Province in the south of Thailand. When he was a student at Silpakorn University, he was a student leader and participated in the Friendship Program for 21^st Century in Japan. He also received awards and stipulation money for young artists, as well as exhibiting his artworks in National Art Exhibitions in Thailand several times. After he graduated he worked in the advertising business for more than fifteen years. Many times he had ideas to use his remaining time so he quitted his job in 2010 to pursue his goal to create works of art.

Chayanan Arvato

BATHING BEAUTIES
By Janine Yasovant 
[WC News Service]

The Artist

     A native of the island Koh Yoh in the South of Thailand, Chayanan Arvato studied art at Chang Sin College and later got Bachelor’s and Master's degrees from Silpakorn University. His current job is a university lecturer. Chayanan is a role model of an artist who incorporates drawing in the western style. He has observed art works in Europe more than eight times and he found that his knowledge of art is still lacking as each kind of work requires different ways of training. People admired him and called him the best figurative artist in Thailand. I completely agree.

Art and Happiness By Janine Yasovant

THE ART OF PAKITSILP VARAMISSARA 

For some time, I have followed the Thai artist Prakitsilp Varamissara. He has had several interesting exhibitions which can be seen as blending artistic knowledge from Silpakorn University and local wisdom from the area where he has currently been residing. That is the combination of art in Lanna Thai culture and artistic knowledge from western nations.

 

For example, in 2013 there was an art exhibition to celebrate 30^th Anniversary of his every art exhibitions that was held at the National Art Gallery in Bangkok. Audiences impressed with the varieties of his art works which were so stunning and different. It could be said as if it was not his solo exhibition.

Janine Yasovant

Reporting from Chiang Mai, Thailand 

PICHAI NIRUND
Photo: Janine Yasovant/WCNews Service

|PICHAI NIRUND:

HIS OTHER ART: THE VIOLIN|

[WCNews Service]Recently, I had a chance to visit the house of Pichai Nirund, a Thai national artist in visual arts (Buddhism). He told me that he moved from Bangkok to Chiang Mai around ten years ago due to heavy flood in Bangkok. His house is located around foothill of Doi Suthep Mountain. Pichai was born on 7 March 1936 in Bangkok Thailand and he received a title of Thai national artist in 2004. In the Silpakorn University, he was one of the art students who was taught by an Italian professor Silpa Bhirasri (Corrado Feroci 1892-1962)

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