The Beautiful Criminal Painting

Lampu Kansanoh was born in 1983 in Pua District, Nan Province, and was later raised in Amphawa, Samut Songkhram Province. She graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree from the Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts from Silpakorn University with honors. Lampu has achieved great success from submitting entries to contests since she was a student. She is known for creating fun and colorful paintings with quick brush strokes, outstanding and unique characters with accurate color skills. The contents of the images are plastered with humor, teasing the wheels of social satire news and current affairs. Lampu's work combines reality and imagination and interprets the culture and traditions that surround her. She combines straightforward expressions communicated through the characteristics of the face of the person in the picture with underlying humor and sarcasm. Lampu has exhibitions in galleries and museums in Thailand including the MOCA in Bangkok, as well as, in many foreign countries including the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan and the Carrousel Du Louvre in Paris. Currently, Lampu creates art as a professional artist residing in Samut Songkhram Province.