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Poppies Painting

Suthamma Byrne

Thailand

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 31.5 W x 39.4 H x 2 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

When I painted this I had just come back from a trip to Kanchanaburi to see the 'Bridge over the river Kwai' and 'Devil's pass'. Devil's pass if you've never been there is cut through a mountain it's littered with memorials and poppies, to those who died there (including a lot of Thai people) poppies everywhere, its a striking place and I don't think anyone could walk through it without shedding a tear or two.I went with my partner, until then I didn't understand the horrors of war. My partner asked me to paint something with Poppies as it was near November 11th Remembrance Sunday. I did some research and was taken back by the terrible scenes in the trenches and knew that's what I wanted to paint but wasn't sure where the Poppies came in, then it came to me they represent all those that didn't make it over the trenches or fell climbing over, young men cut down in their prime, there's a tear or two of mine amongst those poppies.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Oil on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

31.5 W x 39.4 H x 2 D in

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Ta Byrne is a Thai artist who lives and works on the beautiful island of Koh Samui, just off the south coast of Thailand. Her Oil Paintings . are vibrant, eye-catching and packed with a sense of fun and humour. Ta takes humans as her focal point in her Figurative Painting but abstracts these figures by distorting them and using a cartoonish style to create a more humorous feel. While her work is mostly representational, she incorporates Surrealist elements in many of her paintings, making her one of the most exciting artists working in Thailand today. Ta comes from humble beginnings, living out her childhood on the rural outskirts of Bangkok as a farmer's daughter. During her teen years, she worked sewing shirts in a Bangkok sweatshop, and it was during this time that she met an old street artist who invited her to his studio. This sparked her desire to become an artist, and since then, she has gone on to produce Abstract and Cubist paintings that have received international acclaim from art connoisseurs.

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