"Guardian" Painting

Saeko Ando, a contemporary artist - lacquerist, merges traditional Vietnamese lacquer-craft skills and son mai painting techniques learned from past generations of lacquer masters with original methods she developed over decades of experimenting with Vietnam's natural lacquer. Saeko's artworks seek to give physical form to the process of utsuroi, the impermanence of all things and the transience of Nature, by harnessing Vietnamese natural lacquer's characteristic for change over time. Each one of her artwork is a one of a kind original son mai lacquer painting - a uniquely Vietnamese art form. All of Saeko’s artworks are made with authentic natural lacquer sap from trees in Vietnam's Phu Tho province. Other typical materials employed in Saeko Ando's artworks include colour pigments, gold/silver leaf, eggshells, mother of pearl, wood powder, silt, and cotton fabric. All her artworks come with Certificate of Authenticity.