Artists: Select from the list ---------------------------------- THAILAND ---------------------------------- Amnat Kongwaree Bordin T. Silpaolan Chumpol Taksapornchai Cholasinth Chorsakul Jason Tamthai Jitti Jumnianwai Jittiwut Sriyang Kamol Tamseewan Kasemsak Tranucharat Komkit Mekmok Kritsana Chaikitwattana Morrakot Naksin Panu Kritaramruang Parichart Suphaphun Prakornpatara Janthakhaisorn Sarawut Bugkhunpod Sirat Ubonyeam Siriwan Lohacheewa Siriwat Yaikrathok Sitikorn Thepsuwan Somkid Rawangkomarat Sopist Lertwongprasert Supachet Bhumkam Therdkiat Wangwarcharakul Wanna Khumsombat Watcharawut Puanlawan Wattanapong Yothaitiang Worawat Chortabtim ---------------------------------- MALAYSIA ---------------------------------- Charles Cham Eng Hwee Chu Jansen Chow Lim Ah Cheng Ng Foo Cheong Soon Lai Wai ---------------------------------- MYANMAR ---------------------------------- Bakhine Bogie Chann Nyein Kyaw Kyee Myintt Saw Khin Maung Zaw Myint Soe Myoe Win Aung Nann Nann Nyein Chan Su Thar Gyi Zaw Win Pe ---------------------------------- VIETNAM ---------------------------------- Cong Kim Hoa Din Y Nhi Le Bien Le Minh Le Thiet Cuong Nguyen Quang Minh Nguyen Van Cuong Pham An Hai Pham Ha Hai Tran Van Quang Trinh Tuan Vu Thu Hien ---------------------------------- OTHERS ---------------------------------- Christian Develter Diem Thi Bui Dangers Jacques Charrier Louise Truslow Charles Cham started painting at the age of five inspired by the first movie he ever saw. It was a story about an artist with a magic brush and everything he painted became alive. He painted birds and they flew away. He painted fish and they swam away in the river. Finally he painted a woman, she became alive and they fell in love. When Charles came home that day after the movie, he started to draw a portrait of the painter on the floor with some cake powder belonging to his mother. That was his first portrait. After working as an editorial artist for a few years in Kuala Lumpur, he went to France to paint. He became a member of the Association des Artistes Indépendants in Aix-en-Provence and exhibited in the Salon des Indépendants in 1990 and 1991. In 1993, he set up his studio in the old quarter of his hometown in Malacca, Malaysia, and named it The Orangutan House. In 1995, he had his first solo exhibition “Yin Et Yang Et Cetera” at the Creative Centre of the National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. This was quickly followed by other exhibitions in the region and internationally. Since then he has exhibited in Singapore, Hong Kong, Bali, Australia, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Portugal and Malaysia. Charles Cham’s works are based on the philosophy of Yin and Yang – the duality of life and the attraction of opposites. He believes that everything has another side, visible or not. “The Yin and Yang paintings are actually multiple paintings. They are in fact two paintings on one canvas, with each other facing in the opposite direction.” He is also a strong believer in the art of drawing and in the simplicity of forms. “Simplicity is the most profound stage one can achieve, in art and in life.” “There is no painting without drawing. For a painting to be strong, it has to come from a drawing. Drawing is the basis of it all – the mother of art. Drawing is the idea, the thought; painting is the emotion, the expression. I believe that drawing is thinking and painting is feeling. Therefore, I draw what I think and paint what I feel. As there is no feeling without thinking, there is also no painting without drawing. Sometimes I feel more comfortable calling my works painted drawings rather than just paintings.” Charles Cham’s works are in the collections of art collectors in more than 30 countries. Four Corners Passion Face I Remember Dancing with Myself The Outsider Cool Lemon                 Blue People Red Sky Blue Heads Tension Attention     Prices are subject to confirmation by La Luna Gallery