Thinking Man Painting

Born in 1986, in the old capital city of Thailand, Ayutthaya. He was sent to boarding school at the age of 3, to attend kindergarten in Bangkok, and he move to Vajiravudh College until finished high school. His interest in Art and Design started at Vajiravudh College, a famous Thai-buddhist boarding school where he explore his interest in Art at very young age. At the age of 12, he started perspective drawings, landscape painting and later graphic design illustrator, product design, as well as woodwork during high school. In 2010 he got his Bachelor’s in Architecture Program in Industrial Design at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL),Thailand where he adopted the design philosophy from bauhaus with the concept “Form follow Function" and "Less is more” which he continue to explore and work around this concept afterwards. After graduation, he joined Anon Pirot, a Famous Thai Designer in Bangkok as a product designer, where his design and manage a showcase of Anon Pirot Studio at Maison & Object, Paris. After the Europe visit, he took his exploration more intensively and later set up his own Design Consultant company, ‘MIA Collaboration’ in 2011 with his friends. The team work mostly on branding design, product design, shop design and architecture. The company won ‘Best of the best Reddot design award’ of product design in 2012 and some design architecture awards. After 4 years of experience in design consultant, Kai decided to take his career further and launch consumer product with his girlfriend called “ZweetHerb”. The company leads a healthy beverage trend in Thai market with unique design and minimal branding and is successfully operating until today. In 2016 he resume painting again casually during the weekend at Pakchong. After he was diagnosed with Psoriasis, he took time off work and starting painting as a cure to his symptoms. He experiment in minimal painting, solid color, geometric form and sharp edge . In 2017, Kai move back to his home town Ayutthaya, to become a professional artist and explore modern and minimal Thai art until now where his work revolves around history of his city (Wat Collection).