Hopefulness 2 Painting

Pham Anh Tuan, born in 1981, is one of the prominent painters of Hai Phong. Like many other painters of the port land city, the coastal landscape with its wharves, boats, idyllic street corners and the life of fishermen are endless sources of inspiration for his work. Pham Anh Tuan prefers to use neutral colors with gentle and emotional brush style, not focus on detailed representation but more on evoking space. Space in his paintings whether it is a vast landscape on river, or a narrow corner of an old wall always evokes the feeling of stillness and silence as if they are immutable. People or objects if appear in his painting are also very quiet, and fit themselves in that space, adding to the sense of redundancy and loneliness.